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Aspen Anti-Billionaire Society
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A community dedicated to spreading awareness of the negative impacts of the billionaire class, especially the 250 richest people on the planet
We believe that the existence of the 0.01% comes at a cost to the rest of us, even multi-millionaires, and hope to spread awareness of this problem among the 1% (who have the most resources to affect change)
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See the stickied comment below for an explanation and statement of our purpose, based on simple back-of-the-napkin math
E: if someone could please link this community to r/aspen and r/roaringforkvalley I would greatly appreciate it. I’ve been IP banned by the all powerful AI mod monster, like many folks on Lemmy
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The reason revolution has not happened yet in the Global North is because through Imperialism, cost of goods are kept low enough that workers are more interested in perpetuating the system than they are overthrowing it. As Imperialism continues, though, concentration gets higher and exploitation more severe, until these countries break away and nationalize their industries. This reflects in worse conditions back in the Global North, and strengthens revolutionary fervor (hence the rising class struggle in the US).
You're correct that random assassination won't work, the system has to be replaced. You agree with Lenin, here, who argued against adventurism. Instead, the state must be smashed and replaced, the bourgeois state with a proletarian one. Public ownership must become the principle aspect of society, not private.
People have tried making arguments to the bourgeoisie, like Robert Owen, Saint Simone, etc. These were the Utopian Socialists, and they all failed, because economic systems are material, not collections of ideas. They aren't recipes, but physical objects, that behave according to the laws of physics. Policy is a reflection of that underlying base, not the driver. Policy shapes the base, but the base is primary.
Finally, it's the working class that has power through numbers and trained through Capitalism into socialized (read: cooperative, systematized labor) into a class that can run society as a whole. The 1% have money, but the working class has physical power.