[AnimalMuppet]

True, but...

Lenin (for example) didn't walk into a prosperous, free, egalitarian country, and persuade everyone to rise up against the existing system. The inequality, poverty, and misery gave rise to people willing to listen to Lenin, and to try what he was selling.

I'm not excusing Lenin. I'm not apologizing for him. But without the existing inequality, he would have gotten no traction.

[adynatos]

he also wouldn't have gotten any traction if people had no concept of envy. yet eliminating envy is just as stupid as eliminating natural differences between individuals.