The fundamental difference between you and them isn't that you're so much smarter, it's that you were met with conditions that pushed you against the status quo.
I and basically everyone on this site ARE smarter than most people and I have no problem owning that. I can read at a high school level just for starters.
Also if we are relying on people to fall into conditions to push them our of Capitalist thinking... no wonder ML parties have 0 successes in the west.