The American Left and the Billionaire Question
Bernie Sanders in 2016 waged a crusade (in words only) against "the one percent" and "the billionaire class." AOC carried the torch with her obnoxiously performative "tax the rich" dress. "Billionaires should not exist" these so-called “progressives” proclaim.
These slogans are impotent not only in that Bernie succumbed to the corporate-controlled Democratic Party, but also in that these slogans were doomed to fail from the beginning. As if by design …
On the other hand: China has billionaires. China is led by a Communist Party. In China the billionaires are not in charge of the political system. In China, the billionaires can’t buy off elected officials. The People’s Republic is more powerful than a few rich folks. That’s the difference.
Marx and Engels didn't oppose capitalism because they were whiney babies who didn't want to work or who were jealous of others’ wealth. Engels himself was a ruthless "exploiter" in that he owned a factory. Perhaps Marx wasn't particularly keen on work, as Engels was basically his sugar daddy. lol.
Marx and Engels instead opposed capitalism instead because it was (and still is!) an irrational system which could not produce enough wealth. They argued that the productive forces are held back by the profit motive. The only way to unleash the productive forces was to take the apparatus of production and direct it towards human ends, towards “use-value” instead of “exchange value.
Russia proved this path, by industrializing rapidly and defeating the Nazis for us, after which we took credit. The political overthrow of their socialist system (which certainly had problems) and return of capitalism in the 1990s saw immense poverty, prostitution, degeneracy, drug use, all sorts of social ills plague Russia, until Putin rose to power and re-nationalized their energy sector. Very free market of him!
China has proven the superiority of the socialist path further, by learning from the bureaucratic problems of the USSR and instead utilizing markets as one method of planning (In agreement with Soros (damned be his name) theories of reflexivity, that prices are mere signals, and in the socialist planner’s mind, they’re merely inputs for the outputs of production.
China’s economy has already surpassed that of the west's in all real economic measures (Li Keqiang index, GDP PPP) and soon it will surpass the West in all the fake financial metrics as well. (such as GDP)
The American Synthetic Left oftentimes decries China for having taken the “capitalist road.” The Party of Socialism and Liberation (of no importance to the masses, just an irrelevant ultra-left grouping) wrote a small booklet called "China: Revolution and Counterrevolution" arguing that Deng's successful (Marxist!) reforms were a counterrevolution. These idiots worship failure. They reject success.
Thankfully, these ultra-left deviations in the American Left are being corrected. Recently, the American Communist Party (ACP) was announced in response to the Communist Party USA's decay and support for the pro-imperialist Democratic Party. In their launch video, they prominently showcase the actual working class, construction workers, farmers, real workers.
Jimmy Dore, when interviewing Jackson Hinkle about the newly launched party, described the launch video as seeming like a "Ford Commercial" ... yet this is what The Left used to stand for. Only recently (1960s onward) has the American Left ignored the working class and instead pandered to the upper-middle class degenerate bohemians who want free love and whatever else is intuitively offensive to the common folk.
Finally, after all this rambling, we must turn to the Billionaire question. Clearly the woke anti-productive anti-growth so-called "left" are not interested in increasing the productive forces. If the productive forces were to be increased, many more would become billionaires.
And like the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has done, we could abolish income taxes entirely and still remain in line with the communist project.
Communism is vast abundance. The anarcho-communists and hippie weirdos do not want to see humanity flourish. But the Chinese Communist Party is accelerating towards this prosperous future, pulling BRICS+ nations up with them. We will be left behind if we do not join in friendly competition to acceleration production.
Our demand mustn't be "abolish billionaires" it should be "raise the productive forces."
We need a million billionaires. A thousand trillionaires. Zero poverty. As the great depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long said: “Every Man a King!” … and before you accuse me of “fascism” (since Huey Long was a populist who rejected Communism, so apparently that makes him a “fascist” — Ha!) I must remind you that Huey Newton of the Black Panther Party was named after Huey Long (a white man!) because his mom thought Huey Long was based.
So if you’re gonna call Huey a fascist, you also have convince a Black Panther’s mom that she’s also a fascist-supporter. Or perhaps you’re just too foolish to study what fascism actually was; a false populism of, by, and for The Banks.
Anyways, enough ramblings. We need an economy of, by and for the people. That means we need to cultivate the conditions for a million trillionaires. None shall be poor. All boats shall rise. Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness.
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