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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.

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] emelia@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

OK but a millionaire probably won't be able to finance the revolutionary orbital cannon

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

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[-] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Swap round millionaires and billionaires. Materially, millionaires have more in common with the working class.

Eh, idk, there's a reason they say the petite bourgeois are the main base of fascism. For them it's not just about the money, they want to have a who psycho individualist society where they get to play little feudal barons and get jerked off as the smartest, bestest person ever for it. The billionaires, while scum, usually have a somewhat better understanding of how things actually work (Elon and other weirdo tech billionaires are basically petite bourgeois who became haute bourgeois and kept the brainworms, the actual old money is more savvy). So they may be more down for striking a deal that lets them keep a little chunk of their privilege in exchange for avoiding the inevitable.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] disownthelibs@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

I would imagine in any type of bourgeoisie/communist alliance Elon wouldn’t be allowed to join.

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