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"So you talk about mobs and the working classes as if they were the question. You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? the poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars."

-- G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday

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[ygam.livejournal.com]

Хорошая книжка! Там еще джеймсбондовское кресло со спуском в подвал.

[wsobchak.livejournal.com]

>the poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists;

say what? I guess Nesto Mahno was a Ukrainian oil baron.

>The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.

everything West of the Appalachians has been settled as a result of the poor pulling up that stake and getting the hell away from government. The rich stayed in the Northeast and South. And why the fuck would anybody want to go to New Guinea?

>The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

No, the rich have always wished to be governed (if they themselves couldn't govern) by people close to themselves in blood and tribal alliance. The poor have never even had that option on the horizon.