Thomas Jeffeson a Marxist lunatic?

From Noam Chomsky - Here is a little piece of interesting fact. Near the end of Thomas Jeffeson's life, he spoke with a mixture of concern and hope about what had been achieved, and urged the population to struggle to maintain the victories of democracy.
He made a distinction between two groups- The Aristocrats and Democrats. Aristocrats "fear and distrust them into the hands of the higher classes." This view is held by respectable intellectuals in many different societies today, and is quite similar to the Leninist doctrine that the vangaurd party of radical intellectuals should take power and lead the stupid masses to a bright future.

Jefferson specifically warned against "banking institutions and monied incorporations" and said that if they, grow, the aristocrats will have won and the American Revolution will have been lost. John Dewey was one of the last spokespersons for the Jeffersonian view of democracy. In the early part of this century, he wrote that democracy isn't an end in itself, but a means by which people discovered and extend and manifest their rights, Democracy is rooted in freedom, solidarity, a choice of work and the ability to participate in the social order. Democracy produces real people, he said. Thats the major product of democratic society-real people. Like Jefferson and other classic liberals, Dewey recognized that institutions of private power were absolutist institutions, unaccountable and basically totalitarian in their internal structure. Today, they're far more powerful than anything Dewey dreamed of.

This literature is all accessible. Its hard to think of more leading figures in American history than Thomas Jefferson and John Dewey. They're as American as apple pie. But when you read them today, they sound like crazed Marxist lunatic. That just shows how much our intellectual life has deteriorated.

This is some pretty amazing facts about how are society is overpowered by large corporations and institutions. No matter how much one works, pulls their wait, strives for a better life, their lives will be controled by these groups and not Democracy. Democracy means very little today as it might seem. Put your money into Corporations they are the ones ruling the country today.