• neanderthal@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    This is ANCIENT. Plato wrote this in Republic.

    ETA: It has been a while, so I don’t know the exact order Plato’s cycle has.

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      In the Republic, it basically goes: aristocracy (of philosophers) -> aristocracy (of warriors) -> oligarchy -> democracy -> tyranny