Fascinating.
The Ayers videos are a treasure trove of post affluence American tropes.
My personal favorite is the meme of revolution as self improvement.

But, what interests me most is the incipient phase transition of radical resistence to tenuous rule.

The Bolsheviks were a select group of highly educated intellectuals, indeed, the *vanguard* of the proletariat. They were quite capable of speaking in pleasing tones and inspiring hope of transcending received human nature to a higher plane of kindness and reason.
For 74 years the Bolsheviks and their heirs ruled Russia, and for 74 years the crown rested uneasily. The Soviet Republic was threatened from its birth by counterrevolutionaries and by reactionary great powers, it was threatened by opportunists and back sliders, it was threatened by saboteurs and wreckers, it was threatened by sentimentalists and egoists.
Once power is attained, the imperative becomes to maintain power.
At some point, the handsome young prince himself becomes the evil dragon. So it has always been.
The eternally youthful Che Guevara becomes the jailor. This is the ghost in the machine.