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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I think you have misunderstood the term “class.” As the term is usually used, it does not refer to an individual’s personal behavior, good or bad. It refers to a complex of background and upbringing, tastes, interests, values, goals, and beliefs shared by a group.

Class hatred is hatred for people just because they come from a particular social class. The lazy poor hate middle-class people, who prosper from hard work and self-discipline. Marxists hate the middle class as a reservoir of social values and also hate the aristocracy, as you do; this is what led to bloodbaths of the successful and/or educated wherever communism has taken root. The sort of thing you advocate, in other words.

In this country, we don’t hate those who have more money or status than we do. At least, most of us don’t. It’s unAmerican to hate the rich, because most Americans have faith that with hard work, intelligence, talent, and determination, we all have the chance to become successful. We too could become rich, and most of us would like to be rich, so it would be a bit hypocritical to hate the rich.

It would be interesting to know why you have so much resentment toward rich foreign people who have absolutely no influence on your life, for good or ill. I wonder at what point people have enough money or power that it triggers a desire to see people executed for having more than you do.

In any case, you’d make a very good Bolshevik. Lenin would have loved your attitude.


169 posted on 07/23/2013 11:29:28 AM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare--now a Marine Mom)
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To: ottbmare

“I wonder at what point people have enough money or power that it triggers a desire to see people executed for having more than you do.”

Aren’t you assuming that they have ‘more than I do’?

As I orinally stated, I simply do not believe in ‘royalty’ simply by ‘accident-of-birth’ and the fawning over them by many in the world I find quite repulsive. Moreover, they probably became ‘royalty’ by killing all of their opponents.


171 posted on 07/23/2013 12:33:17 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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