Pffft - lmao. So everyone should be equally poor? Have you read no history? The only thing the Soviet Union was attempting to do by building socialism was to turn illiterate serfs into a "middle class". The actual, successful construction of a middle class via market capitalism turned out to be the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, eradicate famine and plagues, and create almost universal literacy. The very fact that you have the words and "thoughts" with which to question bourgeois society speaks to the great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant, and that's what you want to go back to? Shame on ya.

> So everyone should be equally poor?

The idea behind workers owning the means of production is that everyone should be equally prosperous.

> the most successful experiment in human human history to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty

Sorry bub, that's China.

> (American success) via market capitalism

Via Europeans enslaving everyone else on earth then nearly destroying themselves in WWII

> great pains your forebears went to to make sure you weren't a slave peasant

If you mean lobbing off Old Louis and Marie's fat gourds then yeah, you're right

Anyone born between 1940-70 was born on third base and thought they hit a triple.