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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2513320" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>“The great Roman historians Livy and Plutarch blamed the decline of the Roman Empire on the creditor class being predatory, and the <a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=latifundia" target="_blank">latifundia</a>,” Hudson said. “The creditors took all the money, and would just buy more and more land, displacing the other people. The result in Rome was a dark age, and that can last a very long time. The dark age is what happens when the <em>rentiers</em> take over.”</p><p></p><p>“If you look back in the 1930s, <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/leon-trotsky-9510793" target="_blank">Leon Trotsky</a> said that fascism was the inability of the socialist parties to come forth with an alternative,” Hudson said. “If the socialist parties and media don’t come forth with an alternative to this <strong>neofeudalism</strong>, you’re going to have a <strong>rollback to feudalism</strong>. But instead of the military taking over the land, as occurred with the Norman Conquest, you take over the land financially. Finance has become the new mode of warfare.” - michael hudson.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2513320, member: 56035"] “The great Roman historians Livy and Plutarch blamed the decline of the Roman Empire on the creditor class being predatory, and the [URL='https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=latifundia']latifundia[/URL],” Hudson said. “The creditors took all the money, and would just buy more and more land, displacing the other people. The result in Rome was a dark age, and that can last a very long time. The dark age is what happens when the [I]rentiers[/I] take over.” “If you look back in the 1930s, [URL='http://www.biography.com/people/leon-trotsky-9510793']Leon Trotsky[/URL] said that fascism was the inability of the socialist parties to come forth with an alternative,” Hudson said. “If the socialist parties and media don’t come forth with an alternative to this [B]neofeudalism[/B], you’re going to have a [B]rollback to feudalism[/B]. But instead of the military taking over the land, as occurred with the Norman Conquest, you take over the land financially. Finance has become the new mode of warfare.” - michael hudson. [/QUOTE]
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