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It is a common argument against Marxists/Socialists & thousands of times it is bursted. I repeat.

To be a "Socialist" it doesn't mean which "Class" you belong to, what matters, which "class" u stand with & whose interests you serve. If @ammaralijan has a degree
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from university of Cambridge we would have to look whom he stands with and we know he stands with working class___poor and oppressed. THIS IS NOT HYPOCRISY.

Hypocrisy is when you call yourself "Socialist" but stand with oppressor.

Coming back to "Class" 2/N

History is full with examples___ Che Guevara was born in a "well" middle class family, he could study Medicine; when he saw poverty in Latin America, it changed him 4ever.

He along with others fought against a mighty imperialist power & defeated it.

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He became a "Minister" in Cuban Socialist Government but after sometime he left Cuba and joined his Comrades in Bolivia and he was martyred.

How can a person leave ministry and join toughest life of Guerillas?

I always get astonished about it.

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So, you will find countless examples in history.

Being socialist doesn't mean you can't belong to elite class.

Which class you are born you don't decide.

And it is always and always whose interests you serve.

Secondly, it is indeed clear that elite and 5/N

and middle class as a whole cannot change/challenge this status qou completely, these are individuals, who are challenging.

Revolution is brought by those who have nothing to lose__the peasants and workers.

These individuals make a vanguard to educate the masses 6/N

as Fanon puts it, "To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, 7/N

and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

It is the oppressed who has to emancipate themselves.

But, they are so hand to mouth and suffer from "Fear of freedom" for that a political party is necessary, which makes a vanguard to educate the masses with national and class consciousness.

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As these oppressed don't have time and resources, and mostly, middle and elite individuals have time and resources, they can read and analyze, and educate the masses about the existing conditions in their own local and indegegious language and tell them that it is "YOU" 10/N

oh oppressed who have to emancipate themselves and their oppressors.

Hope it clarifies and the day, Ammar's or anyone's, political interests align with powerful, by then, he and anyone is not a SOCIALIST.