The word plutocracy is almost always used as a pejorative to describe or warn against an undesirable condition, and throughout history political thinkers such as Winston Churchill, 19th-century French sociologist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville and 19th-century Spanish monarchist Juan Donoso Cortés have condemned those they characterize as plutocrats for ignoring their social responsibilities to the poor, using their power to serve their own purposes and thereby increasing poverty and nurturing class conflict, and corrupting their societies with greed and hedonism. A man had no shoes but when fortune smiles, he forgets his past and the poor? The rich becomes his friends, he appoints them all in his cabinet. He only remembers the poor, when campaign for votes begins and yet the poor gets carried away with gifts and empty promises and votes again. What is missing is political education and I expect civil societies to champion!
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 05:55:40 +0000
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