Opinion: DeSantis 2024?

[Dill]

(08-17-2022, 09:01 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: What society in the history of organized civilization hasn't had a Bourgeoisie and a Proloteriat class, to some degree?  

Bourgeois and Proletarian classes emerge in Western Europe only in the late Medieval period, when and where, for the first time in history, capitalism becomes the dominant mode of economic production. And they follow wherever capitalism displaces traditional economies, world wide.

If you want to include pre-14th century "civilizations" in your statement, then you'll need to swap out the terms "Bourgeosie" and "Proletariat" for other, less specific class markers, like  "rich" and "poor."

Rich and poor have always been with us, but that's no ground for an argument against fair taxes. Keeping our history in mind, that point generally appears when a dominant class argues against the re-distribution of wealth acquired through exploitation.