Who's a Better Communist?

In The New Statesman, Andrew Hussey has an entertaining take on the memoir, just published, by France's leading post-structuralist novelist and intellectual, Philippe Sollers. One sentence amused me, when Hussey says that Sollers is "a vain, gossipy but undoubtedly talented novelist who is the epitome of snobbish, bourgeois, mondain Paris (Sollers's Maoist youth is only further proof of this pedigree)."

Follow that? Being a Maoist is merely "proof" that you're bourgeois. Get it? Because I don't.