its a myth that socialists aren’t concerned about their own personal wealth
the people you were dealing with are inner party, not some low level worker
socialism is just another oligarchy
difference is they justify their excesses because they are the martyrs doing such hard work shepherding the dialectic process to get throughvthe socialism phase to the pure communist goal, which is total bs
One of the ugly truths about liberals/leftists is that they are the most greedy people around. Profit is bad...except their profit, that's good.