Just what kind of wealth does the middle class have? Is the middle class the $250,000 income people?
I just don’t understand exactly WHAT they are trying to accomplish.
If the country becomes impovershed, then no one spends money or buys things. No one goes to college. No one buys cars. No one can pay their taxes to support the poor teachers unions.
I don’t understand them I guess. I just can’t wrap my head around the end game.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t see what they GET out of it-other than control.
“Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t see what they GET out of it-other than control.”
Inquire no further, don’t over-think this. Control IS the endgame. Name any communist country that made the material well-being of their populace a priority. Name any communist regime that found its citizens more prosperous 10 years after assuming power. You already know the answer to this, I don’t have to tell you. None of them; not one. You can say it’s because communism “fails.” I don’t think it fails in it’s goals at all. It is wildly successful once you understand the definition of success for the communist. Success is control by the “party” and destruction of political opposition. It means the complete subjugation of the masses to the total and complete power of the state. Because material well-being means wealth and independence, and wealth and independence means the loss of control, material well-being cannot be allowed. Since control is everything, the Marxists cannot allow the masses to live in anything other than dependent poverty.
So having a productive economy that markets consumer goods to itself is inconsistent with a communist state. Now, the production of consumer goods is another matter; make them but don’t use them. Sell them for international currency, as a means of enhancing the international economic power of the state. That’s the Chinese Communist model.
That is what they want. YOUR FREEDOM--from you and your children's children.