Thread: Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy

Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped

Submitted by ilene on 12/04/2011 15:14 -0500
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Here's some interesting weekend reading about Debt Slavery and our place in its long history. ~ Ilene

Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped

Courtesy of MICHAEL HUDSON
Published at CounterPunch


Aristotle, The Louvre - Wikicommons Eric Gaba (Sting)

Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the multitude into their campâ€