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    It is not the case that The poor are unfit to participate in politics as free men.

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    • 1.Aristotle himself argued that those who perform necessary labor for the city share in its common life and thereby develop political judgment through practice.
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    • 2.The capacity for practical reason (phronesis) is distributed across economic classes, as demonstrated by the deliberative wisdom embedded in common civic experience.
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    • 3.Excluding the poor from politics removes the very corrective mechanism that prevents oligarchic faction from corrupting the common good.
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    • 1.Rousseau demonstrated that economic dependence corrupts political judgment in the wealthy as much as the poor, since both are distorted by relations of domination.
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    • 2.If susceptibility to material interest disqualifies participation, then property-owners whose votes protect their holdings are equally disqualified by the same standard.
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    • 1.Freedom requires self-possession and distance from pressing bodily needs.
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    • 2.The poor are obsessed with need and too degraded to exercise the self-control required for political participation.
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    • 3.Those who cannot rule their own desires must be ruled like slaves, or their needs will issue in envy and violence.
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