mobocracies

Updated: May 19, 2025

But their masters, becoming richer and richer, were very well satisfied, and Bastiat proved convincingly that Nature had arranged Economic Harmonies which would settle social questions far better than theocracies or aristocracies or mobocracies, the real deus ex machina being unrestrained plutocracy. Thus the stars in their courses fought for Darwin.

Bernard Shaw - Back to Methuselah