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I think my concern is that if the power structure is an Oligarchy, it matters little if the label on the government structure is Communism, or Democracy. The wo
by digikata 12y ago
I think my concern is that if the power structure is an Oligarchy, it matters little if the label on the government structure is Communism, or Democracy. The worry from increasing inequality in the west is that we are approaching something like the strict power structure of an old communist country, only from the other direction. E.g. the legal system in America seems to apply unevenly to different classes of people.
- bsbechtel 12y agoI would agree with this. I've often held the view that it hasn't been Democracy that has made our country great, but it has been the legal structure that has limited the concentration of power to any group or individual. There have been a great many Democracies that have failed (although percentage-wise, I would guess they are on the whole more successful than other governing structures throughout history). I agree that today the legal system today doesn't seem to apply fairly. I don't know history well enough to know if this was the case in the past.