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    5 days ago

    What happens to the working class after they take control? History says they don’t stay the working class. They become the new rich or the new military leaders.

    First of all class in the Marxist sense refers to your relation to the means of production. Getting a higher paying jobs doesn’t change your class.

    And sure some do become military leaders, because they literally lead a revolution. They proved they were capable military leaders, why wouldn’t they stay a military leader?

    And no, they don’t become the new rich. You can look up how much people in government positions in communist governments were paid. They didn’t all become overnight billionaires. And working for the government is a job.

    Their revolutions mean nothing because they just use violence as a response to violence rather than taking a holistic proactive approach to the advancement of mankind.

    Communism has been successful everywhere they’ve been tried. They all improved the material conditions of their people, improved literacy, and health outcomes. There’s a reason polls show most people who experienced communism preferred it to capitalism.