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What is the point then?

White collar workers just flee the country: See Venezuela, Iran, etc. Even Russian Revolution itself is an example of this trend.

When white collar workers become "inconvenient" they get purged as enemies of the people. See Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. He had brutally purged roughly 25% of his own population, far more in relative numbers than Stalin, Hitler or Mao did, yet he still had been in power for decades, even after Vietnam invaded after massive refugee crisis.

Iran had violent protests in the past few years, but the protesters just got killed and that was it.