plutofascism (,plutəfæʃɪzəm) n. 1. the rule or control of society by the wealthy by means of an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy. 2. any ideology justifying the rule of the wealthy and the imposition of an authoritarian and hierarchical structure to maintain that rule. 3. government by a few wealthy people, who are beating the rest of us senseless. “...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.” — Noam Chomsky To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. -Benjamin Disraeli Plunder comes at the risk of life and limb. The presence of plunder destroys the incentive to produce and the incentive to save. The presence of plunder not only lowers everybodys standard of living, the reduction or absence of savings makes it difficult to the point of being impossible for standards of living to increase. There is no free lunch for the plunderers or the plundered. -George Santayana “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt “[T]here seems to be nothing to prevent the transnational corporations taking possession of the planet and subjecting humanity to the dictatorship of capital... In order to crush any thought of organized resistance to the supporters of the new world order, tremendous police and military forces are being used to establish a doctrine of repression...” — Christian la Brie Le Monde Diplomatique , Paris When the Babylonian civilization collapsed, three percent of the people owned all the wealth. When old Persia went down to destruction two percent of the people owned all the wealth. When ancient Greece went down to ruin one-half of one percent of the people owned all the wealth. When the Roman empire fell by the wayside, two thousand people owned the wealth of the civilized world...It is said at this time less than two percent (2%) of the people control ninety percent of the wealth of America. — Lincoln Money Martyred “Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience...” — John Locke 1690 Thanks, Paul
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