Engels was not a billionaire. 0.00004% of the world’s population are billionaires today. By today’s standards he was a multi millionaire for sure but he was nowhere near a billionaire. He was a part owner in a medium sized business. Engels was like one of the 10 richest people in a small town kind of rich.
Ski holiday every year type of rich. Not super yacht decorated with priceless art and its own helicopter rich.
I know, I’m obviously mostly joking. But the point still stands. We’re at a time where a low level billionaire might be so far removed from the actual richest people that they might become class traitors as well. Or maybe their kids y’know?
Point being we need capitalist class traitors on our side. Not in a way that we need to start reaching out to them or anything. But having even one actual communist billionaire or hundred-millionaire would be good idk
Billionaire class traitors, if they exist in the first place, are welcome on the condition that they’re genuine revolutionaries, but our movement is still a movement of the working class and we shouldn’t depend on them to win our class war for us.
Engels was not a billionaire. 0.00004% of the world’s population are billionaires today. By today’s standards he was a multi millionaire for sure but he was nowhere near a billionaire. He was a part owner in a medium sized business. Engels was like one of the 10 richest people in a small town kind of rich.
Ski holiday every year type of rich. Not super yacht decorated with priceless art and its own helicopter rich.
I know, I’m obviously mostly joking. But the point still stands. We’re at a time where a low level billionaire might be so far removed from the actual richest people that they might become class traitors as well. Or maybe their kids y’know?
Point being we need capitalist class traitors on our side. Not in a way that we need to start reaching out to them or anything. But having even one actual communist billionaire or hundred-millionaire would be good idk
I guess my point is that it goes against their class interests to be a communist. Consciously going against one’s class interests is another thing.
Not that Engels was a billionaire, because billionaires didn’t exist at the time, but point taken. Well done.
Ik ik. But we need class traitors on our side to win 🤷♂️
Maybe not need, but I mean it sure helps
Billionaire class traitors, if they exist in the first place, are welcome on the condition that they’re genuine revolutionaries, but our movement is still a movement of the working class and we shouldn’t depend on them to win our class war for us.
That’s for sure