If I understand this argument correctly, people must be individually "enlightened" before socialism is possible. Based on my reading of Marx (I'll spare you the quotes), this is exactly backwards: individual characteristics are a product of social relations, and thus socialism is the precondition for the type of "enlightened" individuals you valorize. As in our discussions about social change, the fundamental fallacy here is that social structure is a precipitate of individual psychological characteristics. That's capitalist ideology through and through, as old Whiskers pointed out incessantly.
Miles