罗马帝国民主制度造成人民选择福利,导致其终结.

来源: 尚文 2012-11-07 19:43:19 [] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读: 次 (1302 bytes)


“What was the root cause of it all? The Romans had fallen prey to socialism. This cancerous system of mushrooming welfare, high taxes, trade restrictions, and inflation destroyed the Roman system of common law and demolished the currency and the economy. By 400 A.D. the troops were no longer well paid and some units went renegade.

“When the Romans withdrew, the local people were left with no law and no military defense unless they could hire one of these renegade Roman units. Commanders of the renegade units became local dictators.

“The roads fell in disrepair. Long distance trade and communication ceased. Supplies of raw materials from distant lands began to dry up. Mass production ended and towns started preying on each other. Each latifundium became a separate nation struggling to survive in isolation from the rest of the world. Each had its own castle and army. Taxes, taxes, and more taxes.

“In our school books we are taught that the Roman Empire fell because it had become militarily weak and was overrun by tribes of barbarians. This is a half-truth. In most areas, civilization had already been destroyed by socialism; the people were well down the road of barbarism themselves – long before the arrival of the foreign tribes.

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是啊,还有数不清的王朝,因为不照顾人民的福利,没了。就这么“噗”,没了。 -老忽叔叔- 给 老忽叔叔 发送悄悄话 (0 bytes) () 11/07/2012 postreply 22:55:02

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