Private law

[supergee]

We should be focusing on the fact that a tiny -- microscopic -- group of people have collected immense wealth and power. They are a threat to democracy, decent lives for the rest of us and the survival of the planet.

--Eleanor Arnason on privilege

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[necturus]

Marx predicted that capitalism would bring about the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few very rich people.

When Lenin wrote: "to decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament -- this is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarism", he was describing the politics of such a time.

All things outlive their usefulness. Capitalism did marvelous things in its day, but it is no longer a force for good. It is time to move on.