The wealthy have always been the primary proponents of Communism as a means of exterminating the middle class.
That’s why the greatest chasm between the haves and have-nots exists in “Communist” countries.
Re “ exterminating the middle class”
That Can only happen when the middle class isn’t actively hunting you down and doing a little of their own exterminating.
And that will happen if they F with us. And there’s a lot of of us… Armed to the effing teeth.