Really? What an idea.
A bold headline on the Global Research website: “Billionaires should not exist”, asserts moral judgment on the super rich. The idea evokes the “eat the rich” meme generated in the 1970’s, 60’s? Who first uttered this phrase? Lenny Bruce?
There is definitely something in the zeitgeist of society about fighting the plutocracy. Bernie Sanders highlights the problem of the oligarchs and the plutocrat class. So let’s take the message and build a movement around removing the rich from power since it makes sense, and people want it.
Green Liberty is in solidarity with the idea for an egalitarian revolution: https://greenlibertycaucus.org/in-solidarity-with-egalitarian-revolution/
For the record: Green Liberty stands against plutocracy like the abolitionists stood against slavery, as a categorical, an absolute “no”, plutocracy has no place in a free society; they, the super rich, must be removed from power; and only an authentic democracy movement can do this.
Get the background on this idea in the posts listed below.
Green Liberty has posted this, ditch the rich; Global Research posts billionaires should not exist, reflecting the popular desire to get rid of plutocracy.
John Spritizler advances a radical egalitarianism to build a free society.
Emanuel Pastreich has a long essay on taking down the billionaires: https://greenlibertycaucus.org/how-to-take-down-the-billionaires/
Here is an excerpt from the NY Times, further demonstrating that a billionaire animus is in the air:
Also from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/magazine/tina-brown-interview.html
The Interview
Tina Brown Thinks the Über-Rich Have It Coming
Who is the most odious person in the media right now? Oh, God, so many. I’m so disappointed in Jeff Bezos. I saw him as a big savior of The Washington Post, and it seems like he’s just totally flipped. Tucker Carlson really mystifies me. He worked for me at Talk Magazine.
He did? Yes. My two political correspondents were Jake Tapper and Tucker Carlson. Tucker was a really good writer. I would have certainly had him at The New Yorker. He had such a wonderful gift of turn of phrase. He had a satirical eye. He was wonderful. And then something strange happened. He had a head transplant and turned into this kind of frothing lunatic. I don’t understand what happened to him. I think what has shocked me really about this era is how fast people can change.
Speaking of politics, that brings us to a big earthquake in your adopted city, New York: a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, who has very much scared the plutocratic class. It’s wonderful that he’s done that. They have been terrified.
What does his rise say about how people are feeling about the elite? It was a battle cry that absolutely needed to be sounded. In the last few years, we have been so bullied by the superrich. There’s a sense that the rich are the ones who have the voice in every debate, whether it’s about academia or the way the nation is run or how we live our lives with the tech revolution. And people have felt, I think, more and more hopeless about the enormity of the wealth and the impossibility of fighting it. Mamdani has shown how to get your fight back. It’s very inspiring. Money doesn’t buy everything. All that money went into stopping him and he still won. And you don’t have to like his ideas to be glad of that. I’m very glad of it.
What do you think happens next? I think we’re underestimating the power of humanity. That’s what Mamdani showed. We’ve tended to think this is the inevitable direction. A.I., the über-barons will dictate how we’re all going to live, and everybody else is a peasant. All of these things have become very depressing. But maybe humanity has a bit more juice in it than they anticipated. Things can change very, very quickly in America. It’s one of the reasons I love living in America. It’s an exciting place. The whole mood can change overnight. All of a sudden, people will just turn around and say, Look, I don’t want you deciding how my life is going to go. So I’m feeling quite optimistic at the moment.
Last question: What should the headline for this interview be? “Dinosaurs Still Rule the Earth” — question mark.
Oh, no, I think exclamation point at the very least. You’re an exclamation point for sure. Well, thank you, Lulu.