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Chris Hu said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Possibly. The old adage "power corrupts" definitely has it's place in there too though. There was a lot of overthrowing of the "elite" with communist revolutions. Until those leading the revolutions realised that they were the new "elite". Much easier to demand "equality" when you're the one that would benefit from it than when it would be detrimental to you

Not really since all so called communist coutries ended up having very few rich people.  In the Soviet Union even the elite only made about three to four times as much money as the rest of the population. 

 

" In the Soviet Union even the elite only made about three to four times as much money as the rest of the population. "

 

yes which is why the elite set communism up in the soviet union... to enrich their lives at the expense of the peons who allowed them to set the system up

 

the same peons that thought for some reason that communism would make their lives better