In essence, as I read this, what happened was Paris was taken over by terrorists, who declared themselves liberators, and all of their actions as thus inherently just. Marx used this event to formulate his infamous doctrine of the “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
What this meant forever after was that the least able, least competent, most inflexible, most violent people among a group of armed insurrectionists were empowered in theory, at the level of ideology, to pronounce the most insane ideas to be truth, and to treat anyone who disagreed as an enemy of progress and everything good.
Ponder the fact that the bourgeoisie has ever been the enemy of Communists. Why? Why is this so? Is it not a good thing to be middle class? Has it not been a goal for most people for most of human history to be physically comfortable, well fed, and safe? Why, then, do Communists hate them so much?
Because they are “inauthentic”? This is the core of their lunacy. These intellectuals literally conflate disagreeing with them with a sort of mental illness, with “false consciousness”. Thus, somebody who just wants enough to eat, a comfortable bed, and a roof with no leaks becomes an “enemy of the people”.
I don’t have time to delve more deeply into this right now. I will read this article in full tonight, and likely a few others, not from Wikipedia.
But these intellectual “ticks”, these preposterous leaps of unwarranted faith in their own goodness, wisdom and ability, are perennial among a certain sort of ludicrous people. And these people remain among us. They are common. They are outspoken. And they are in positions, even now, as absurd as it should be, of political power.