A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS HAS A NEW NAME – A CLASH BETWEEN RICH AND POOR

Abstract

During past years we have witnessed the fact that, parallel to growing of the divide between rich and poor a fear of rich that they will loose their money is also growing. Withdrawal and isolation are natural consequences of fear. Absence of justice is inevitably the first and essential sign that a society, empire or civilization has reached its peak and that it will soon leave the historic center stage. When a society chooses justice as it highest ideal and holds firmly to the universal principals of justice, it inevitably experiences progress. The very moment a society betrays these principles and becomes a society of injustice, its disappearance becomes foreseeable. We should, therefore, speak of justice as existential principle, without which human life losses every meaning. Justice must be obtained through evolution or revolution, it is completely irrelevant. However, revolution, in the classical meaning of this word, is not considered an adequate solution to the social crisis.