Europe is Revolting

[Imran Siddiqui]

many socialists and communists make good money

So they benefit from the system and thus are unlikely to really cause too much of a fuss

[Darius871]

Why aren't they giving that money away?

[chequita guevara]

Why aren't they giving that money away?

Two points: one: no one said communism was about living like monks with vows of poverty.

Two: who said they weren't using the money to help the cause or put it into various charities.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, if you know someone is making good money, it usually is fairly obvious, such as the clothes they wear or the place they live (unless you ask them outright!).

[TCO]

Che...I'm practically serious. Change it from a street based liberal revolution to a good old style Southern lynching and I will put the bankers and Republicans and Democrats in the nooses. Nothing like a little murder to concentrate the mind...of these ****s.

[Provost Harrison]

So they benefit from the system and thus are unlikely to really cause too much of a fuss

Hey, I'm willing to trade my IT skills in for tractor parts!

[Darius871]

Two points: one: no one said communism was about living like monks with vows of poverty.

Nobody said anything about living like monks, but there's obviously a difference between a house and an apartment, between a Benz and a Honda, between the Gap and Target, between Oakleys and Raybans, etc. I fail to see how a communist exhibiting the former of any such choice is anything but a hypocrite, pure and simple.

Two: who said they weren't using the money to help the cause or put it into various charities.

It's all a matter of degree. Giving $10K a year sounds like a lot at first, but if the giver makes $100K a year, it sure as hell ain't. And so on.

[Cort Haus]

Communism isn't about being poor as a matter of principle. In fact it is, amongst other things, about supporting the aspirations of ordinary working people to want to be rich. However, communism opposes a system it believes to be incapable of generating a large enough cake for all to have enough, and seeks to find a way to rationally build a larger and more stable cake than under the chaos of capitalism.

[chequita guevara]

Che...I'm practically serious. Change it from a street based liberal revolution to a good old style Southern lynching and I will put the bankers and Republicans and Democrats in the nooses. Nothing like a little murder to concentrate the mind...of these ****s.

You're hired.

Communism isn't about being poor as a matter of principle. In fact it is, amongst other things, about supporting the aspirations of ordinary working people to want to be rich. However, communism opposes a system it believes to be incapable of generating a large enough cake for all to have enough, and seeks to find a way to rationally build a larger and more stable cake than under the chaos of capitalism.

Dammit! In all the years I've been a commie, I've never been able to put it as succinctly as that.

[bc1871]

[Arrian]

However, communism opposes a system it believes to be incapable of generating a large enough cake for all to have enough, and seeks to find a way to rationally build a larger and more stable cake than under the chaos of capitalism.

Hang on a minute. I thought that communists generally recognized that capitalism makes a helluva big cake, but divides it poorly. So the claim is that communism will not only distribute the cake properly, it will make a bigger cake? That's quite a claim.

-Arrian

[The Mad Monk]

Dammit, now I want some cake.

[Arrian]

There's some in the break room. It's from yesterday afternoon, though...

-Arrian

[The Mad Monk]

No there isn't!

TEH CAEK IS A LIE!

[Riesstiu IV]

Revolting? What was wrong with the previous volts?