Who gets to eat & who gets to lead

The Marxist/Leninist framing of history as class war was about how the honor elite were not entitled to their historic/traditional prerogatives. 

What began in the French Revolution took full flower in the Russian Revolution. The glorification of the proletariat and the lower classes was at the same time a repudiation of the aristocracy, the nobility and the upper classes. 

What the Marxist/Leninists didn't do quite so well was tore-frame an honor code so that a new cadre of leadership could govern properly. When the modern era came of age that repudiation of the upper classes morphed into a repudiation of anyone in authority. The sixties counter-culture opposed the code of the gentlemanly class that Victorian England had bequeathed to the world, perhaps because Victorian England was no longer the world's ruler as it had been while Queen Victoria reigned. Nevertheless, the counter-culture too failed to develop a proper code of honor (for governance of the people) to replace that 'out-moded,' Victorian code, with its in-built class divisions, which the English or the Europeans had produced. 

There's something in a code of honor that prepares people for leadership. Many of the Founding Fathers were from Virginia with its Confederate honor code. The challenge of history is to evolve honor codes that are democratic and that do not favor the leisure class. 

The left worries about who gets to eat; the right worries about who gets to lead. Each needs the other. The center must resolve both simultaneously.