The acid test for a " socialist "

• The acid test for any " socialist " is this : Does he or she question and challenge the moral legitimacy even of " legitimate " wealth ? A government of honest socialists would quickly create a very different world. A world without capitalist private property would be a world where most lawyers and judges and politicians would be suddenly unemployed ( but not destitute thanks to " compassionate socialism " ) . What use would we have for the advertising industry ? No more state lottery millionaires. Just deconstructing the military industrial complex, the POLICE STATE , will create a vast new " leisure class " - at least temporarily .
  To be sure , a lot of these darlings of the ruling class will be useful in destroying the super-structure of American capitalism.
  In a way these multi-million dollar state lottery tickets are nothing but propaganda for the capitalist way of life. ( YOU have " equal " opportunity here ? ) No WINNINGS will be respected under socialist equality. No trust funds for rich kids and no more rich widows in splendid mansions. No more PRIVATE collections of great art.
  Think about this , " socialist " friends of Bernie Sanders . No , real socialism will not be bliss for YOU ! But before it is too late you will have an equal opportunity to join the mass of humanity.
  Just a thought question : Could the capitalist class have continued to exist without making a world of misery ? Lenin thought that peaceful revolution was simply IMPOSSIBLE because the ruling class was " incurably greedy " .

  
  

  
  
  

  
  

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 [ David North speaks in defense of Leon Trotsky at Cornell University ...

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/05/corn-m03.html

May 3, 2012 - On May 1, David North, national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party and international editor of the World Socialist Web Site, spoke at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in defense of Leon Trotsky. ... North began his remarks by asking why a meeting would be held “in ...

•  I commend David North for rescuing the real Lenin and the real Trotsky from ruling class academic servants. Whatever honest criticism might stick, they were honest revolutionary giants. ]