Our Actions, Behaviors, and Rhetoric Matter As Much As Theory.

From communist theory, the capitalist hierarchy goes: bourgeoisie, landlords, petite bourgeoisie, proletariat, peasantry, and lumpenproletariat.

The Demsocs and Socdems I have spoken to, especially the Bernie/AOC ones, tend to only care about the landlords, petite bourgeoisie, and proletariat, occasionally using theatrics for the classes below them. They tend to side with the system over the revolutionary, pushing for Nordic capitalism.

To the left of them, there are those "socialists" who either only care about workers, or themselves and then workers. And once again, helping the classes below them is basically what benefits them, or theatrics.

Now there are anti-capitalists who prioritize every one of the classes from worker to the homeless, regardless if they prioritize themselves above their favored class.

Thus, I have a problem with communists strictly using the term "worker." I get that we are supposed to remove those above the working class from power, but we are supposed to be helping humanity. The problem is I just want to move the worker to the hot top of the hierarchy instead of helping the other groups. We should be saying "humanity" or "the people." The people should be seizing the means of production, not just the workers. The people should be responsible and accountable for resources, not just the workers. For an equitable-egalitarian society, we need collective oneness and shared obligatory stewardship, not to hoard all the say with just the workers. If you want to say anybody who is not in one of the classes above the workers is a member of the wage slave class, fine, that works for me. But otherwise, the way people talk, all we are doing is creating a new hierarchy, and that is just not cool.

Then I have one more gripe. Just because we are not the elite, just because we are not wage masters, does it mean we do not have morals, ethics, a sense of right and wrong, principles, responsibility, or accountability? I am tired of hearing, "We are not elite. Why are you not worried about the elite?" Yeah, because I want to remove the elite from power and allow an opportunist with the same words and ethics as them to have a chance of corrupting people and gaining power. Like, listen to yourself. If we do not have a universal code of morals, ethics, and responsibilities, then why are we even bothering to do anything? So we can replace a different group of unethical and immoral people in charge, or give a group of immoral and unethical opportunists a chance to enslave us? When it comes to these things, I do not care about power and money. I do not care about who controls the resources. And honestly, I do not care where anybody comes from, because you could have a sibling in your same household be completely a different moral character than you, while experiencing everything you did. Now I get that there are people with mental health problems that make them psychologically different, but that is not the normal.

I am going to borrow two Indigenous quotes. These quotes are anti-sectarian, opposing class, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, social Darwinism, and egoism. "If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect all rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases." — Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce.

"All red races are born Socialists, and most tribes carry out the communistic ideas to the letter. Amongst the Iroquois, it is considered disgraceful to have food if your neighbor has none. To be a creditable member of the nation, you must divide your possessions with your less fortunate fellows. I find it much the same amongst the Coast Indians, though they are less bitter in their hatred of the extremes of wealth and poverty than are the Eastern tribes. Still, the very fact that they have preserved this legend, in which they liken avarice to a slimy sea-serpent, shows the trend of their ideas; shows, too, that an Indian is an Indian, no matter what his tribe; shows that he cannot, or will not, hoard money; shows that his native morals demand that the spirit of greed must be strangled at all costs." — Tekahionwake.

Ian James Kidd broke misanthropy down into groups. One of those groups is the activist-misanthrope, and I completely believe communism was created by that group because no matter how much you want to help people, look after their well-being, and enable them to progress, people not only resist but openly oppose and display the same dark triad personality and values of their oppressors. And then the people who are supposed to be your allies, who are supposed to be walking among you in your movement, vilify you for not accepting bourgeois values and personalities because the person carrying them with the bourgeois mentality just happens to be of the wage slave class. A person who carries that mentality cannot share our consciousness, and if they do, they have a twist in them that is going to turn it right back into the system we are fighting.