Aristotle - And - Democracy Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Aristotle took it
for granted that
a democracy
should be fully
participatory
and that it should
aim for the
common good.

In order to achieve
that, it has to
ensure relative
equality, moderate
andsufficient property
and lasting prosperity
for everyone.

In other words,
Aristotle felt that
if you have extremes
of poor and rich,
you can't talk
seriously about
democracy.

Any true democracy
has to be what
we call today a
welfare state.


(ReadAristotle's Politics,
which is the foundation of most subsequent political theory) .