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Yale Professor Defines Elderly Americans as the New Class Enemy

Paul Craig Roberts

A Yale University professor of law and history, Samuel Moyn, has resurrected and redefined Marxian class conflict.  In the old Marxism, the capitalists exploited the workers.  In Moyn’s version, elderly Americans  exploit the young. Moyn’s solution, espoused, of course, in the New York Times (April 21), is for the old to be dispossessed of their homes, jobs, accumulated wealth, and political and judicial offices.  These dispossessions and more are needed for “intergenerational justice,” by which Moyn means redistribution from the aged to the young, and in order to stop older Americans from “Hoarding America’s Potential.” Moyn thinks that a poorly educated and undisciplined youth can manage all of America’s affairs better than better educated and more disciplined older Americans.  

Moyn builds his case against “gerontocratic society.” Older Americans, that is more experienced Americans, are overrepresented in political life and have too much power. This results in inequality and injustice and in regressive public policies.

Moyn claims that older Americans are overrepresented in elections which gives them a stranglehold.  What Moyn means is that older Americans take their citizenship responsibility  more seriously than do the young and actually vote in elections.  By being overrepresented in voting due to youthful disinterest the elderly have amassed “excessive power” that “harms society” by resisting open borders and “environmental remediation” (global warming claims), and denying society youthful creativity and dynamism such as we are currently observing in New York City..........more..........