I don't know who he is/was and I don't much care who he is/was, because whoever that was doesn't change the fact that this is a low-effort communist screed like millions of other communist screeds (including Marx's own works): "bad things have happened to me, and I'm sure bad things have happened to you, so lets gang up on people who have some of the things we want and take it from them". What's infuriating is that I can sort of forgive somebody who thought this was a good idea 100 years ago, before we had 100 years of evidence that communism is catastrophic. If anybody thinks this is a good idea today, they're being willfully ignorant.

See my other comment in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957611