Every time we chat, and the discussion turns towards capitalism, she’s the one who without any hesitation just says we should kill them all. Now, though, it’s gone further to torture. And she names names. In addition to people like Bezos and Musk, she includes Ben Shapiro, Andrew Tate and others.
I say we should force them to work and maybe learn the error of their ways (After the revolution of course. During it many of these fucks will die and I’ll be glad).
Her current jobs is extremely horrible. She’s being massively overworked, verbally abused and, of course, underpaid. So I get her frustration. But it’s also scary. I don’t want her to get in any trouble.
I don’t know if I should be gently turning her away from imagining a slow and painful torture of capitalists or not. Am I being a lib or is she too extreme?
i'm not talking about them inspiring loyalty, i meant just using their money to fund counter-revolutionaries and other insurgents
they have money and assets all over the world, there is no way we could find it all, and a few million will go a good way into arming terrorist cells and the like
The issue with that killing them won't kill their money. The individual billionaire isn't special or even important; The reaction will be carried out by a vast array of military and intelligence officers from across the western world and beyond. Jeff Bezos might fund a few private armies, but anything he can do will pale in comparison to the funding and support put forth by the US, NATO, and other capitalist and fascist nations.
And if we kill Bezos his money will simply devolve to the next heir in line, who will share Bezo's class interests. There is certainly propaganda value in killing or humiliating billionaires and oligarchs to shatter the perception that they are invulnerable and beyond harm or consequence, but I believe, and I am fully open to counter-arguments and willing to accept that I am wrong in this, that individual capitalists are not strategically significant. again, I don't care if they get killed, i just don't think it's important one way or another.
I also think, even in the best case scenarios, even if Posada's aliens show up with a communism ray tomorrow, we're still going to face generations of insurgency and resistance from capitalist partisan forces. The USSR faced terrorism, infiltration, and armed threats for it's entire existence and if we manage to subdue major countries we will face the same from within and without for a long, long time. Limiting the scope of reactionary terror is important, but I think a sober analysis suggests that any effort in that direction will be multigenerational.