It worked out great in 1917 when the Bolsheviks went after the rich, then the religious, then the successful farmers who had been serfs a scant 50 years before.

It worked out great in 1917 when the Bolsheviks went after the rich, then the religious, then the successful farmers who had been serfs a scant 50 years before. Eventually no one competent is left to counter balance or stand against the authoritarian government and your society is looted and gutted by high ideals co-opted by the most violent and psychopathic thugs around. Ten years gulag for prostitution, and twenty for the much worse sin of being a nun.