Kasz216 on 12 December 2011
| Mr Khan said: Economic inequality is the single greatest determining factor for or against democracy. A society united in poverty (as in the middle phases of the Soviet Union) is going to oppose democracy, and a society with high inequality is necessarily going to have class antagonism Marx had the right idea in that class warfare is what drives the political changes in countries, but this comes from alienation between the classes and always leads to a non-democratic alternative. Democracy only functions when there is low tension between classes, which only works with relatively low inequality (though not super-low, as that indicates a general lack of economic activity) Hence with the swing of inequality exacerbated by the economic crisis causing lowered support for democracy. How do you think it happened inbetween the World Wars? |
Except Economic inequality decreased during the economic crisis... and in reality is lower then 1994... and really europe hasn't had much of a gini coefficent even in the terms household.
See Individual Gini coefficent vs household/family gini coefficents to see the "lie" in the statistics.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=137687&page=1#12
