On 19 December 2014 at 23:13, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> A democracy that legislate oppressive laws based on an ideology that is >> against economical, social or anthropological reality is an oppressive >> regime, no matter if it includes "democratic" in his name, while a monarchy >> that leave people to live their life is a regime of freedom. >> > > I can agree with that. > > In fact, the majority of the people that live in modern western > democracies live under de facto feudalism. They cannot in practice chose > their jobs or how to spend their times. They live for little morsels of > freedom on the weekend (if family allows it at all) and if the state hasn't > deemed your pleasures unacceptable yet. > > Exactly. It's what (I think Karl Marx?) called wage slavery.
It's roughly like the idea, surprisingly rife in America, that the USSR was "socialist" because it said it was. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
