Basically we redistribute most of the wealth we confiscate from the millionaires to the working class, give the billionaires their pound of flesh for financing the revolution, and we banish the billionaires to a bunch of little special economic zones on islands and shit where they can do neofeudalcapitalism or whatever, but only there! The rest of the world transitions to communism and we let the next generation deal with the billionaires we made a Faustian bargain with.
We should basically do to billionaires what they tried doing to Napoleon.
Yeah, kinda feel like people who argue for re-education of the boug nowadays are ignoring a big ticking clock.
I have good news about the tendency of large monopolies to destroy smaller businesses I guess. But you still get nothing
They would just fund the nazis again, get all of the money, and crush the general expectation of redistribution being possible into any direction but upwards.
Swap round millionaires and billionaires. Materially, millionaires have more in common with the working class. They're more likely to live alongside and socialize with working class people. They're more exposed to the everyday problems of working class people, and even share some of them. Millionaires are more likely to loose their wealth and comfort as the economy continues to constrict and squeeze the edges of the imperial core. Don't hold your breath for the good kind of class traitor, but expect it from the small-time local gentry, not the elite of the elite.
OK but a millionaire probably won't be able to finance the revolutionary orbital cannon
yeah but that ignores that the other main base for fascism is the people hired to beat up trade unionists
the brownshirts weren't a bunch of small business owners
it's the ideology mafioso hired to beat up peasant organisers and trade unionists came up with
Eh, idk, there's a reason they say the petite bourgeois are the main base of fascism.
Because there are a lot of them. The billionaire types also all supported fascism, they just couldn't be the main base of any movement because there were too few of them and they don't get their hands dirty. They just finance the rise of fascism.
I would imagine in any type of bourgeoisie/communist alliance Elon wouldn’t be allowed to join.
I wanna see a cyberpunk story set on one of those remaining ultracapitalist enclaves
If you make sure they're islands close to sea level we can let the sea solve the problem for us.
