For those priviliged enough to not experience poverty or not struggle with money at all, the path to radicalization is mostly an intellectual one. What others intrinsically know as their lived experience they have to make up through study. That does not mean, however, that they are lesser comrades to the impoverished.
I was sitting in a library in one of those highly selective colleges (which I also attended) when I overheard a young woman telling her friend about the concept of surplus labor value. She had learned about it in class that afternoon. The idea had never occurred to her, and she was pissed. Like, incensed to the point where she was planning to tell her dad.
I have some doubts about how that discussion was going to go, but it was a nice change of pace