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

(1) There people in @RileyGRoshong& #39;s thread here doing the "we can reform capitalism into socialism by making the government redistribute wealth to us" thing and it& #39;s... politically naïve, and also not socialism https://twitter.com/RileyGRoshong/status/1381245126601809920">https://twitter.com/RileyGRos...

(2) So I& #39;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& #39;t even coherent because "rich people" are not "a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group" and it cannot be genocide if you don& #39;t do it against one of those