#97 Bear
If you can control the economic you can control the political. The aristocrats of Europe lost their power because they paid no attention to the economic dynamics. Who is more important–he who can fine you for spitting on the street or the person who pays you the money to pay that fine?

That’s the essential lesson of socialism. They do not object to aristocracy (they consider themselves to be aristocrats, whether they currently are or not) but they understand how it can be destroyed. Capitalism (economic freedom) destroyed aristocracy. For them, the trends of the times of capitalism have been like a form of slow Holocaust.

The aristocrats who are, aspire to be, and imagine themselves to be, are like the Jews who say about the Holocaust, “never again.” Economic success is the enemy of socialism. That’s why they hate it so much, and tend to stomp it out whenever they find it. Unless you are a really, really small country
the peasants can always be taxed so that the aristocrats can live a life of luxury.The impoverishment of the common man is not a problem. For aristocrats, it never has been.