They can't. Its not a matter of personal greed, its just how capitalism works, it creates immense wealth for a few on one end and mass immiseration for the masses on the other. Billionaires exist because of the system that creates them.
Your own citation says there is no basis for it in Lenin, like what did I just quote?
As I said above, if you can produce this quote, I will send you $50. If you're not comfortable with that for identity reasons I will send $50 to any charity you specify (that isn't right wing but you wouldn't do that) and post the evidence. It is actually worth at least that much to me since I've spent an insane amount of time trying to find this reference.
I've had hexbears and .mls tell me it came from an obscure periodical that isn't translated into English, but when I used google translate to convert the entire article, paragraph by paragraph, I never found anything even glancingly close.
If you find a reference by Marx, Luxemburg, Gramsci, Bordiga, Levi, Pannekoek, Plekhanov, Zinoviev, Trotsky, Stalin, Dunayevskaya -- basically any major left wing revolutionary theoretician of renown I will still honor the arrangement because it's worth it to me. Please find the reference or leave me alone. I can't state my case any better without writing a full length article and I'm tired of this back and forth, I'm sure you are too.
Seriously. The judge is worried about the political fallout of doing anything as drastic as like, his job. It could be a real political rallying point, if a judge gets retaliated against. But that might make it hard for the judge to maintain his current lifestyle, and so we just make more concessions to the group committed to destroying even the illusory veil of justice and freedom.
I know, the irony is I'm criticizing people for not bothering to learn history and theory, and then you call a few paragraphs that I wrote in like 5 minutes "a novel". Please try and keep up, or actually contribute to the discussion, smart guy
The saying, Quote Investigator noted, is frequently attributed to Lenin and former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, though there’s “no substantive evidence” it originated with them either.
The Quote investigator link says:
The earliest strong match located by QI appeared in 1955 within a periodical called “The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California”. The club is a non-profit public affairs organization. The quotation appeared as a filler item. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI:1
Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”
—Major George Racey Jordan
Jordan was a U.S. military officer who became a fierce anti-communist. Lenin had died in 1924; hence, the 1955 date was quite late. No documentary source was specified, and multiple researchers have been unable to find a match in Lenin’s writings.
I guess because of perspective, Mercury being millions of miles closer to the camera than it is to the sun, the actual proportions would have the planet being much smaller by comparison
Its breathtaking to be accused of having a superiority complex by someone who, when confronted with their own ignorance, invents a "working class zeitgeist" to gesture towards as if that means jack or shit.
Did you read this? The article says Marx and Lenin never said it, and that it was misattributed to them. In fact the last link in that article corroborates what I'm saying.
On that note, ask Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht about following the working class zeitgeist to occupy Vorwarts. As for feeling superior, being right is superior to being wrong and a little bit of a liar.
As I said, the working class did not invent it, it was invented by a right winger and picked up by leftists who want to feel badass. Go ahead and feel badass for being a leftist, you are. But action without theory is a death sentence.
Again, I'm not against armed resistance, don't try and strawman me. The Deacons of Defense and Justice, the Black Panthers and various other armed movements are worth studying and in part emulating.
We check the source for our info, and the source is the right wing political establishment not the "working class," who has a right to defend itself -- but this ain't it.
You're damn right I'm quick to jump on it, and for good reason.
I read the whole bible as an adult.
But the discipline that took, probably shows that I was starting to think more deeply about things