Imperialism from the Eleventh Century to the Twenty-first Century

Everybody knows that capitalism is driven by greed, by the lure of profit. But greed in human beings was not born with capitalism. Callicles in Plato’s Gorgias expressed this perfectly when he said that in making decisions, he would consider only his own appetite and nobody else’s (Klosko 1984). A capitalist state is born when a class of persons driven by the profit motive comes to control the state, or the state is ruled in the interest of the capitalist class.