You can never eliminate the temptation. When power is concentrated in individuals and small groups of individuals, not only is the temptation there, but the means of satisfying it by grabbing the concentrated power is there also. When power is diffused through the citizenry, the temptation to rule one's fellow citizens will still be there, but the means of satisfying the temptation will be removed. I'm by no means speaking of representative government. That merely concentrates power in individuals and small groups such as we have now in most Western countries. I'm speaking of direct democracy: poeple making and executing the laws themselves. There's surely no direct democracy without economic democracy. There's no real democracy of any kind without economic democracy. The sort of faux-democracy that we have now is really oligarchy. The sort of economic democracy I'm talking about could just as well be called a real free-market economy as well as communism.
So far as ending the role of money in politics, we've seen how that works out. The people who have the money just don't allow that to happen. Even if that sort of law gets passed, the wealthy have the money to buy the lawyers to find ways around the law. Whatever you try, the money will get to the politicians. The only way around it is to eliminate the politicians.
