A question

This is Jijia, and I have come back again. Thanks for your rebuilding the lovely forum because I like it and I have been learning something completely different things from it.

Here is a question about a sentence:
The revolutionary government acts on behalf of the masses and against the privileged few. Does it mean the revolutionary government represent the most of the people's interests and deprive of the aristocratic's privilege or they seldom acts on behalf of the masses because there is a word FEW at the end of the sentence above. What does the word FEW mean in this sentence.

Thanks and B.Regard from Jijia

I would say "The revolutionary government protects the masses from the privileged" and as you know the privileged are always few and tend to control the masses (the poor)

"The privileged few" means the relatively small number of people who are of a privileged status.
And yes, the sentence indicates that the revolutionary government represents the masses.

And there is an expression "the chosen FEW".

"Priveleged few" in this sense refers to the richest 10 or 20% of the population in a country. Maybe even the richest 5%.

19th century capitalism had created great gaps in the wealth and standard of living between rich and poor in both Europe and the United States. These were things that Karl Mark was concerned about when he wrote "Das Kapital" in 1848. He saw the cruelty and ugliness of it all. Later, however, many of these problems were corrected without Marxism by the British and American trade union movements and by President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal Program" here in the United States in the 1930's and 40's.

Karl Mark > Karl Marx