The way they see it the mob needs to be crushed into instinctive obedience so their own "rabble Rousers" and "allies" are more threat than their enemies.
The first sentence is my reply .
I got off on a tangent, verbalizing the things that have been in my head so I could delete all the irrelevant stuff.
Nah, I'll add this cut and go to town.

First thing is get control of the fire power, infiltrate police and intelligence services.
Infiltrate the courts, and you can arrest and convict any one.
Control the media and you can make them like it.
Remember shows like "Highway Patrol", or "The FBI" ?
Do you think the Soviets didn't have "Chekist's today" celebrating the KGB as the Sword and Shield, of the Revolution ?
Nazi's probably had a Gestapo out reach program.
50 % of the population will believe the last thing they heard,
60 % will believe what ever is screamed at them,
70 % will believed what is screamed at them over a long enough period, fake pandemic being a perfect example.
30 % think for themselves and those are the ones who pose a threat to socialism.
Socialism cannot compete against an incentive driven society.
It lasts in the places it did because they never had anything but feudalism, and monarchy, where you might be able to improve yourself but there was a hard line between Royalty" and Commons.
Under capitalism a guy who claimed his mother collected welfare can become President.
Bill Clinton is a lot of things, but he personifies the American dream.
Under socialism no one gets any thing for doing more than the minimum required, so they don't.
Just like serfs.
PBS used to have a series called "Connections" the theme was unrelated minor events that combined to change the world,
For example Francis Bacon perfected gun powder, Alexander Forsythe, developed the percussion cap, and Eduard Rubin developed the jacketed bullet, Their developments made the Kennedy assassination possible.
Politics is the same way.
Everything is interrelated.
Usually through who mentored who.
Obama is a simple example.
He's a raving America hating Socialist
Who was his mentor ?
Who got him into politics ?
He announced his Senate bid at the home of friends Bill Ayers, and Bernadette Dorne. Currently college professors, formerly convicted robbers, murderers, domestic terrorists, and self proclaimed communists. Google weather underground if your a kid.
Frank Marshal Davis was a grievance monger convicted of pornography who was also Treasurer of the Communist Party USA .
So what about CPUSA ?
The Soviet Unions most obedient foreign party among the foreign national communist parties that make up "Comintern" the "International Revolution".
This was the REAL enemy during the Cold War, and most didn't even know it existed.
Damn. Got distracted . Maybe I'll add more later.