"Does socialism require the *Genocide* of rich people": a thread

(1) There people in @RileyGRoshong's thread here doing the "we can reform capitalism into socialism by making the government redistribute wealth to us" thing and it's... politically naïve, and also not socialism https://twitter.com/RileyGRoshong/status/1381245126601809920

(2) So I'm gonna make some caveats and then explain what I mean a little bit. This thread is going to be very long so buckle up.

We can start with defining genocide using the articles in UN international law:

(3) Under international law, "genocide of the rich" isn't even coherent because "rich people" are not "a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group" and it cannot be genocide if you don't do it against one of those