My father died recently so I'll be getting some money from his life insurance. Between COVID and the specific branch of science I got an education for not having many places for employment during normal times, I've been unable to find a job and I've been living at home. If I took this money and invested it in things like insurance companies and prisons - evil corporations and industries with high profits - and then I gave most of that money to like the DSA or FNB or SRA or something like it, would that be wrong?
Lenin said the last capitalist will sell us the rope with which we hang him, so is it wrong if I "do" capitalism if I do it to support the Bolsheviks?
Too dangerous of a road to go down on. People wind up co-opting themselves all the time through this line of thinking.
Here's a dirty little secret: the most disgusting & evil capitalist practices don't actually give shareholders significantly more profit than 'regular' stocks. Your best bet for investing is to just stick all your money in an index fund and forget about it. Especially don't take it out if the market crashes, or you'll be absolutely fucked when it starts recovering.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. If you became a multi-millionaire through the stock market, and donated a chunk of the profits, while keeping the rest to split between you and your family/close friends (escaping a life of misery and all that); I'm not gonna lie, that would be super based.
Besides, Stalin used to be a gangster before the revolution, just so the Bolsheviks could have funds, so no, what you're doing is totally fine, as long as you don't finance stuff like the textile industry or the mines in Africa as examples.
you would be better off buying camping gear or a small sailboat to live on and blowing the rest than investing it right now
have a bit of fun with the money, put the rest towards your own security, save it, give whatever you don’t need to comrades who do, not old bougie orgs like the DSA
worst case scenario is you blow it all and end up poor? far worse things can happen to you