>>Egalitarianism is now the main problem Funny, I've been reading *Against Democracy and Equality* for about the past month or so and there is some decent material contained within: >>Louis Rougier traces the contradiction between legal and economic equality in the egalitarian ideal to Judaism and its successor, Christianity. In his book La mystique démocratique, Rougier writes that Judaism and Christianity, by regarding justice as the equal distribution of riches, turned a moral problem into an economic problem, and consequently deliberately pushed all social discourse into the economic forefront. He notes: By proclaiming that wealth is a divine benediction, Judaism, with its modern substitute Puritanism, has been the generator of modern capitalism. Yet, by proclaiming that wealth is very often unequally distributed, and that it does not always go to the just who suffer the odious inequity of being poor—Judaism has been a prime purveyor of the democratic mystique, and its logical conclusion: socialism.