This is how conservatives think communism works.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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Yeah, kinda feel like people who argue for re-education of the boug nowadays are ignoring a big ticking clock.
First they came for the millionaires...
I have good news about the tendency of large monopolies to destroy smaller businesses I guess. But you still get nothing
It’s easier to start a strike at one company than 100
Then we get rid of the billionaires by building a bottomless pit. Over the pit is a cardboard box with an arrow pointing down that says 'free exploitation'.
Why would the billionaires go along with this
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.
It would make them richer, duh.
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
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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.
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.
Then the Trillionaires can team up to get rid of the Billionaires 
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.