“Eat the wealthy.” The ferocity of the words used by some demonstrators in London on the eve of the Group of 20 summit evokes the worst excesses of the French revolution. Anti-capitalist anger in the west is not confined to Europe. Alexis de Tocqueville's The Ancien Régime and the Revolutionis as relevant to understanding today's America as his deep and eye-opening thoughts on the young American republic in his Democracy in America.
“吃掉富人！”20国集团(G20)峰会前夜，伦敦的一些示威者使用的这句话的残忍程度，让人想起了法国大革命时期最残酷的暴行。西方的反资本主义的愤怒并不局限于欧洲。亚历克西斯•德•托克维尔(Alexis de Tocqueville)的《旧制度与大革命》(The Ancien Régime and the Revolutionis)对于理解当今美国的意义，与他在《论美国的民主》(Democracy in America)一书中关于年轻的美利坚共和国深刻且令人大开眼界的思想一样重要。
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