1.4.1 Slavery offers and illustration of how social injustice grows in complex societies. Rights are granted in primitive social groups to all people, but with the introduction of slaves, equality of rights disappears. Once inequality in introduced it always remains as a basic value. This distinction between slave and freeman is one of the many social gradations that develop in complex societies. This is called disproportionate power.
1.4.2 Democracy is supposed to have distributed power to the people. While coercion may be diminished in democratic states, and peaceful methods are introduced for resolving conflict, the commercial class has become the new dictator. It was in their interest to weaken royal and aristocratic authority so economic activity could proceed without interference. The state is now a tool of economic interests. Economic power is now the chief coercive force in modern society.
1.4.3 Democracy, therefore, has not given society a permanent solution for it's vexing problems of power and justice.
NUT: Social injustice grows through the acceptance of social gradations--which are introduced with slavery--and the highest social gradation now is the commercial class or business man.
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