alt.politics.economics

On Feb 21, 9:04=A0am, Straydog wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, hot-ham-and-che...@ wrote:
> > On Feb 19, 11:40=A0am, Straydog wrote:
> >> A review of "Democracy for the Few" by Michael Parenti
> >> (7th edition, 2002, Bedford/St. Martin's, ISBN 0312392508, 351 pp)
>
> >> This book has long reference lists at the end of every chapter. Almost =
every
> >> quote below has a refernce to at least one source.
>
> >> Page 4- Adam Smith gets quoted a lot. I wonder how many people know
> >> about this quote: "...Adam Smith, the premier exponent of early capital=
ism,
> >> wrote in 1776: 'The necessity of civil government grows up with the
> >> acquisition of valuable property.' And 'Till there be property there ca=
n be no
> >> government, the very end of which is to secure wealth, and to defend th=
e rich
> >> from the poor.'"
>
> > Perhaps he understood that the majority in a democracy can and will
> > vote other people's wealth into their own pockets?
>
> Actually, "the majority" is almost _never_ even in a position to propose
> any process or law that prevents the rich from getting richer and the poor=

> from getting poorer.

Actually, it's like giving amnesty and citizenship (bribes) to 20+mln
illegals if they'll register as democrats.

> I now have references for data in several cultures over much of history
> that indicates that there always was a small number of rich people and a
> large number of poor people. History also shows that the rich almost
> always plundered anywhere, anybody, anytime, everytime that they could.
> History also shows that there actually were a few _good_ kings and
> emperors who actually tried to impose some kind of "economic rights" for
> the many rather than the few.

Like Castro?