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[-] ExtraJudgement@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree that social hierarchies are a feature of homo sapiens, hence why any good form of governance should be based on restricting our worst instincts. That's what the original liberalism improved with the separation of political power into executive, legislative, and judicate branches. Unfortunately, the same was not done for economic power, which - most liberal democracies - allowed to keep concentrating with few to no safeguards.

[-] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The entire point of liberal “democracies” is to provide the conditions so that capitalists could concentrate wealth and power without meddling from the nobility class of feudalism.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

This is not a bad take, but I think there is no point other than propaganda for the simple structure of those who have the most get to get the most.

A great example of this is the French revolution that just transferred wealth and power from one ruling class to another. Democracy and Liberty is just a window dressing to this reality, a way to placate the masses if you will.

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