Tyranny is an ever-present threat - How Classical Greece and China dealt with it

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monkeyelite · 1h ago

The article didn’t mention that the “citizens” of Athens and middle class of Aristotle are a tiny minority of land owners who ruled over slaves, and likely share ethnic/familial relationships.

If you accept their framing our democracy is their demogoguery.

consumer451 · 49m ago

Well, our democracy (the USA) was designed by slaveholders. I think we have to make adjustments for historic advancements when we look that these things, don't we? What I mean is, we can't just ctrl(cmd)-a, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, and expect a perfect fit, right?

mouse_ · 59m ago

This goes into a few philosophies on the subject but it doesn't really go into how they were applied and to what affect.

How'd these schools of thinking actually work out for them? Not very well, it seems.

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Tyranny is an ever-present threat - How Classical Greece and China dealt with it

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