[yatros from flatwater]

Covetousness = The root of all evil = the root of socialism.

Same root, same tree, same fruit, same seed.

Or more to current events:

Plus ça change... plus c'est la même chose

[hedgetrimmer]

Bump for later.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Historically the best the would-be equalizers have ever succeeded in doing is to equalize downward.

That is true - as Orwell pointed out in 1984, Animal Farm and other works.