In the intervening years, those same elites have established a virtual monopoly over the media in the West. Truths such as Marx expressed so long ago are difficult to find. Nevertheless this reality is not unknown, even today. The original is well worth reading if a copy can be found. When analyzed this means government control over everything, including you.
All controls are 'people' controls.
Socialism was an effective strategy in Czarist Russia, where a feudal peasant class had existed for hundreds of years. Having gained control of the Russian state, they then waged a war of annihilation against the white Russian middle class, murdering tens of millions under Lenin and Stalin. But in the West, class warfare never quite caught on. The West has long held individual worth in high regard, and the working class in the West escaped serfdom generations ago. The elite could never inflict genocide on the West as they had on European Russians.