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People claim that i cannot be communist because my family is wealthy. This argument is just stupid in many ways, its as if you told a white person he cannot be against racism because he is part of a more privileged group. The people argumenting this pile of diarrhea which they interpret as a "gotcha" moment also seem to forget that a lot of revolutionaries were from wealthy families like Friedrich Engels, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Marx etc. Being communist has nothing to do with your class-background but your solidarity and the willingness to commit yourself to the liberation of the working class. Having petit-bourgeois, or even bourgeois parents does not make one hypocrit, you are a hypocrit the moment you exploit workers yourself. I myself met a lot of fake-intellectuals who made this argument which made me, as a baby leftist at that time, feel really insecure about the ideas i hold but at the end no true communist cares about wealth, power, luxury or anything as such. If somebody made me the offer that if i had to live the rest in my life in a small, cold, concrede apartment with no kithcen, bedroom or toilet in return all the people would be supplied with food, clothing and shelter...i wouldnt take a second to aggree.

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[โ€“] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you were poor they would call you jealous. Throw their criticism out, it is worth less than nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGC3uJadXh0

If a rich man offers you money, take it and, the next day, kill him. When he says "But I gave you the money!" respond "Why did you give me the money, you idiot?"

We live in brutal capitalism and we must brutally use it.

[โ€“] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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