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Full Idea
The idea that complete and perfect political equality cannot exist without economic equality ...remains correct.
Gist of Idea
Perfect political equality requires economic equality
Source
Antonio Gramsci (Selections from Prison Notebooks [1971], 2 'The State')
Book Ref
Gramsci,Antonio: 'Selections from Prison Notebooks', ed/tr. Hoare,Q./Nowell Smith,G [Lawrence and Wishart 1978], p.258
A Reaction
In the west we are living in a period (2018) when the top 0.1% of the wealthy are racing away, creating huge inequality. Their wealth controls the media, and it seems unrestrainable. The belief that we live in a 'democracy' is an illusion.