Aristotle - And - Democracy

Aristotle took it for granted that a democracy should be fully participatory and that it should aim for the common good. In order to achieve that, it has to ensure relative equality, moderate andsufficient property and lasting prosperity for everyone. In other words, Aristotle felt that if you have extremes of poor and rich, you can't talk seriously about democracy. Any true democracy has to be what we call today a welfare state. (ReadAristotle's Politics, which is the foundation of most subsequent political theory) .