In an elitist society the majority of the people are excluded

In a  remarkable feat of self-refashioning, liberals have turned their backs on a life of the apolitical brand of liberalism. . 

Now, they can view the political landscape at a Socialist distance in this way one can be  more passionate about politics and more able to view it at a distance. 

The emerging poltiical youth wing know  that the ruling class are in some ways as much outsiders as vagrants and dossers, which is why the landowner has a sneaking sympathy for the poacher. 

To be in charge of the system is to be as free of its conventions as those who fall right through them. The ruling-class outsider had to be converted into the revolutionary one – a shift aided by the curious irony that, in class societies, an actual majority of the people are in some sense excluded.