Are there rich communist/socialist. PLUS my stereotypes.

[Coelacanth]

My family..I don't even know. Upper middle class? We have money. We live in a community that is chock-full of rich people, like really rich. I don't know what that makes me.
I'm also female.

[Sturzo]

I've gotten a good taste from both ends of the socio-economic spectrum. My family is middle-class, I suppose. However, we live rather sparsely but comfortably, one car, small apartment, buy sparsely in consumerist goods - but I suppose that is what being middle class these days is.

My dad works in non-profit sector, highly educated himself, a progressive, former Marxist in his younger days (he was in SDS), he exposed me to both sides of society, went to a working class school for elementary and middle, but got also exposed to the upper class through his own connections. Went to high school in a rich neighborhood, but I have always felt more comfortable with lower class kids.

Seeing the dichotomy of wealth is a lot of what really got me thinking towards socialism, plus my parent's openness in my development in not indoctrinating me in anything.

I don't necessarily think there is anything inherently wrong with being rich or privileged (this actually depends on how you are rich or privileged of course), but from I've experienced, the more privileged often have a very different perspective on life (not having to worry about living day-to-day, or hostility from law enforcement for being a minority) than those who've grown up grossly underprivileged.

I've grown up in between that spectrum, we're not rich, but we haven't faced going hungry or eviction - at the same time though we've experienced our own economic hardships. But, I definately feel a lot more in common with the lower class than upper class kids that I've interacted with.

[durhamleft]

I was brought up in an upper class household, and had the privilege? of travelling to many third world countries when I was younger and watching people starve. I was welcomed into the mud huts of families in Africa who had nothing and offered their gratuity despite the fact they had next to nothing and I had so so much. I could go on about it, but it is what it is.

I realised at some point that it wasn't right, and it tore me up. I spoke to a preacher, who was almost as despairing as me agreeing that Jesus would probably be dismissed as a communist if he came back today, and she thought the answer came in charity and prayer. I disagreed and thought the only way to change society is to fight against the forces that cause such horrific inequality.

So yeah, I guess you can be from an affluent family but still be anti-capitalist and anti-inequality, especially when you have a tremendous sense of guilt hanging over your head.

[Fictional]

Only just noticed this thread, it's a bit out-of-date but I'll bump it as this concerns me.

I come from a lower class background, my family barely scraped living in a house, my father works for the MOD in the UK and he's better off, my mother is a cleaner - obviously they're divorced. I lived with my mother, helped her anyway I can, I still pay her a large some of income to keep a roof over her head.

I got really lucky on my first job, after failing pretty bad in school and college due to spending too much time on the Interwebs teaching myself graphic design and web design, I got a job in a local recording studio as an artist and working in Band Promotions, Artwork and Websites for various British bands, the pay isn't too shabby £10.40 an hour and well, I can hardly say I'm finding it tough at the moment.

I'm currently setting up my own buisness in Graphic Design to reach a larger audience instead of just musicians.

I still come from a working class background, in which members of my family have died/been seriously injured due to the chemicals they've worked with under the rulling class.

[chegitz guevara]

I wonder if I start my own private business does it make me hypocrite to call myself a socialist?

It depends on the business and how you conduct yourself.

[LC89]

Only just noticed this thread, it's a bit out-of-date but I'll bump it as this concerns me.

I come from a lower class background, my family barely scraped living in a house, my father works for the MOD in the UK and he's better off, my mother is a cleaner - obviously they're divorced. I lived with my mother, helped her anyway I can, I still pay her a large some of income to keep a roof over her head.

I got really lucky on my first job, after failing pretty bad in school and college due to spending too much time on the Interwebs teaching myself graphic design and web design, I got a job in a local recording studio as an artist and working in Band Promotions, Artwork and Websites for various British bands, the pay isn't too shabby £10.40 an hour and well, I can hardly say I'm finding it tough at the moment.

I'm currently setting up my own buisness in Graphic Design to reach a larger audience instead of just musicians.

I still come from a working class background, in which members of my family have died/been seriously injured due to the chemicals they've worked with under the rulling class.

How do you promote your business? I'm planning to start a home-based business but promoting seems to be hard for me.

I think living in bottom-working class made me want some kind of change. Born in a religious family which it constantly sucks money from us and made us stuck in our class (Yes my family willing to do it) It lead me want a secular government.

[dearest chuck]

My family..I don't even know. Upper middle class? We have money. We live in a community that is chock-full of rich people, like really rich. I don't know what that makes me.
I'm also female.

you're a proletariat, comrade!