Protip: ALWAYS LIE ON YOUR CV
You studied history? No you didn't. Just say you have a PhD in some hyper-niche STEM field. You generally don't get background checked for most normal jobs, unless your workplace is in a place that requires extra security, like airports, health sector or finance.
And even if you get the job and they discover you faked your CV and they decide to call the police, the cops usually don't want to waste time and manpower on such worthless cases and will throw it out immediately.
Lying is cool and based
Isn't this close to what maoists are talking about when they mention New Democracy in the global south?
As in, much of the national ruling class in the south are basically just middlemen for western capital, so even though they benefit greatly from that arrangement, the southern elite don't have any independence to act in their own interests to the extent their western can.
So, they ally with the leftist from a nationalist and liberatory perspective, which can easily overlap with the working class and peasants.
In the west, such a class collaboration would just become fascism or coopted by the ruling class, but since the southern elite can't act in their elite class interests, they find themselves closer aligned with the workers.
Or am I completely wrong? I think ive read this in Eruptions And Continuity or whatever that book was called many years ago.