09-26-2008, 02:22 AM
guitarist wrote:
I wonder what the opposite of that statement would be?
"We can have a democracy, or we can have a state that seizes private assets and redistributes wealth, but we can't have both"
What would that be called? That's not democracy either. There's got to be something other than those two choices...
:patriot:
Call it democracy or anything else, just show me an example of any civilization in the history of humankind that did not redistribute wealth or seize private assets. That is a prerequisite for a functional society. All those that have come before us have failed due to some combination of concentration of wealth and overuse/depletion of the available resource.