re: Do socialists think that billionaires stole their money?

I’m currently listening to the Revolutions podcast about the Russian revolution and I listened to the French Revolution already.

We don’t live in the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th century where workers factory workers were actually abused, mangled, and completely screwed over. People don’t like in ramshackle, quickly built pieces of shite apartments where you have to rent a corner of a room or a half of a bed because you can’t afford anything else.

The changes made by these socialist movements have generally been good for the everyday person: safety standards, reduced mandatory hours, overtime pay, and minimum wages. In fact our society has now improved with the force of strike and government fine because people don’t WANT a minimum wage worker or to be sued for negligence in the workplace.

But today’s socialist and communist still act like poor people are treated like they were in the 1700’s through early 1900’s in Europe and Russia. That’s not what we have and because of that, the solutions of Engles and Marx and the other great Austrian, French, and Russian social philosophers are not the best solution for this country.