02-02-2023, 03:31 PM
Apparently so. People have been quoting Lord Acton since 1887.
Capitalism still works, though, and remains an opposite of Marxism. Furthermore, plutocracy dismantling capitalism so it can't create rivals to their power isn't capitalism going bad, it's capitalism being dismantled.
Why do you ask? Should we ban capitalism to keep people from accumulating wealth, and parlaying it into power? Should cavemen have banned exercise to prevent the rise of bullies?
There is no such thing as a tool the devil can't use. Shall we ban them all? How long would we survive? That's the leftist fallacy. That's why leftism only empowers those who administer it, and has never, ever empowered anyone else.
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