i intend on just blowing a bunch of money on houses and adopting a ton of kids and giving them their own areas. so in some way i can ensure that things are being treated well by being everyone’s mom and they can just keep the maintenance and stuff up on it. then when they get their own families and so on just slowly turn it into a housing commune

When there is no actual outlet for your political imagination or building towards your goals, the “just do a bunch of charity” fantasies creep in.

I know, I have them too. Hopefully someday we’ll have built enough of a movement that there’s too much to do in that arena to think about a quiet life where I just give what I can away.

I’ve talked a bit about it on here before, but as cool as guillotines and such are, the path of least resistance (especially in the short term) is to simply buy the bourgeoisie out. The key follow up to that is to decommodify property (especially housing) and key industries (and keep working from there ofc), so that it becomes incredibly difficult to stretch that 5 million bucks into any sort of generational wealth. After a few generations it’d have to be spent and gone.

A violent revolution may be necessary (the threat of one definitely is), but it has a higher potential to lead to right wing radicalization that socialists would have to deal with for decades (if not hundreds of years). Maybe that’s the better option, but we aren’t in any sort of place to make that sort of decision right now anyway.