> I think the leftists for the past 60 years have acted with good intentions;

If you look back a few more centuries, and check out what the brothers Gracchi, Gaius Marius and Julius Caesar were up to, you'll start to notice that money-less aristocrats have a knack of rallying the poor to their banner, so they can take the state from the moneyed aristocrats.

That has happened a few more times, and rarely the poor have really profited from it. It's a tough game.