Communists hate the middle class - the middle class represents stability.
‘Income inequality’ is a lie but to the extent it exists it was accelerated by Obama and many other ‘community organizers’ in Chicago.
Did the middle class leave or did they just become poor? Or both?
Also, if your pay stays the same you are automatically more poor compared to price increases...so not sure how they allocate for that.
The rich leftist elites hate the middle class -- the children of the middle class, who start businesses and invent new technologies, are competition for their own kids.
This is why they try to sabotage the public school systems, and make college so expensive that middle-class graduates are so burdened with student loan debt that they will have to work for big corporations rather than starting their own companies.
The middle class is made up of independent, uncontrollable people.
Better (for the left) to have a bunch of dependent peasants and a ruling nobility (them).