I know these kinds of hypothetical questions are kind of boring, but I was curious what you guys that about this.

The situation is: I am a relatively wealthy person, with enough investment properties to rent out for income and live off. I decide to rent at a price below the market value and attempt to get tenants who are trying to live in the area but are not financially stable, so I can provide some sort of assistance by giving to them cheaper than they can get elsewhere.

I now don't have to work a single hour a day.

I use a full-time work schedule to do all of the following tasks (aside from other things like cooking, cleaning, exercise) (in no particular order):

  • Manage the properties I own
  • Study theory
  • Attempt various worker organisation activities/union activities
  • Participate in Communist Party meetings
  • Partake in Communist Party activities
  • Volunteer for numerous mutual aid groups
  • Protest
  • Write (online articles) and all the other sorts of activities. In other words, attempt to be a "professional revolutionary" as I believe Lenin put it.

Would this be a moral course of action? Or does living purely off the rent of workers outweigh dedicating basically my whole spare time to my nation's socialist movement?

Edit: Just for context I'm not actually in this position lol.

  • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I heard from some where that its not exactly true that engels owned a factory, in fact engels was cut out of his inheritance for his views.

    True he was wealthy and owned some shares, but i dont think he ever owned a factory, merely working as middle manager for his father