Wisdom of the ages

Apologies for lack of content lately. Everyone still seems obsessed with this other thing. Meanwhile, addressing the meta-issue of social distancing and class closure that underpins new petitie bourgeois reactions to both Brexit and corona, I happened to be reading a bit of Marx's 18th Brumaire... (as you do if you can't get to B&Q), an hilariously sarcastic read if a bit contextual, and came across this, written in the 1860s:

The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary. (18th Bru. ch VI)