1. Democracy empowers the majority.
In a democracy, the majority of citizens — working and middle-class people — can theoretically vote to redistribute wealth, regulate corporations, or enforce policies that protect labor. That poses a direct threat to the concentration of wealth and power.
2. Class warfare is about protecting privilege.
When automation, monopolies, and financial systems concentrate wealth at the top, the rich face two choices:
Share power through democratic institutions.
Undermine democracy to prevent the majority from challenging them.
3. Wealth + political capture = erosion of democracy.
The very wealthy often use lobbying, campaign financing, media influence, and disinformation to tilt the system. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, deregulation, and weakening unions all serve to reduce the ability of the majority to push back.
4. Democracy is “bad business” for oligarchs.
True democracy would tax concentrated capital, enforce strong labor rights, regulate monopolies, and cushion workers in the automation age. Those are existential threats to a system built on maximizing shareholder profit and minimizing labor costs.
👉 In short: The rich must dismantle democracy in class warfare because democracy is the only mechanism by which the majority can resist economic domination. Undermining democracy isn’t a side effect — it’s the strategy to secure elite power in the age of automation and inequality.
