>>509755170The socialists of a century ago were retarded enough and inexcusably radical in their beliefs.
They held this simplistic view that education is the reason the elite is rich, and that the reason regular people have it bad is because they're only taught how to do their jobs instead of accumulating wealth. They thought that if everyone becomes educated, then the humanity will elevate itself to new horizons, and the only reason this didn't happen was because of the old elite that wanted to maintain the status quo. From here you make a leap and conclude that the capital owners wanted to bring people down, the clergy wanted people to care about religion instead of what matters, the royalty wanted the regular men to die in their wars.
So the radical end result ended up being murdering all the various nobility, clergy, landowners, ...things owners, you get the idea, because they were apparently bringing down your common man from reaching his inner superhuman. It's all logical but not quite there and it led to catastrophic consequences. It's only recently that we could find out that most people simply don't have it in them even if educated, the reasons run deeper.