Mark M. Rich said this quote

Allen agreed, writing, If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of the power-seeking megalomaniacs. He reveals, Socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.