“ Aristotle wrote that a government by, for, and of the people could not survive great concentrations of wealth. Rule by the many required a strong middle class, he felt: a small and immensely wealthy elite would refuse to follow the rules made for others, and could not be relied on to maintain democracy. The very wealthy, he argued, create a state consisting of slaves and masters, not of free men.” In Federalist Paper Ten, America’s founders also showed their concern for how unequal distribution of property undermines democracy. Plutocracy, in both conceptions, leads to tyranny.”
Nothing so explicit and radical is needed, r1.
Just a series of mutual accommodations.
This is a corrupting evolution, not a sudden coup.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 30, 2024 2:33 PM |