There’s only one thing that the ruling circles throughout
history have ever wanted, and that’s everything.
There’s only one thing they want: all the wealth, the
treasures, and the profitable returns, all the choice lands and
forest and game and herds and harvests and mineral deposits and
precious metals of the earth, all the productive facilities and
gainful inventiveness and technologies, all the control positions
of the state and other major institutions, all public supports and
subsidies, privileges and immunities, all the protections of the
law and none of its constraints, all the services and comforts
and luxuries and advantages of civil society with none of the
taxes and none of the costs. Every ruling class in history has
wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. Their
operational code is, We have a lot. We can get more. We want it
all. And if you don’t know that, you’re in a sad place. If you
know that and you don’t know anything else, you know more
than if you know everything else and you don’t know that.
-Michel Parenti, 1995.
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