Plato on communism:

1. Communism of wives: emancipation of women and reform of marriage.
2. The individual was neither allowed opportunities nor incentive to do nothing besides serving the state.
3. Would develop a self that is integral & useful part of the society.
4. Comparison with modern communism:

Similarities:

1. Both ignore individuality and believe on the supremacy of the state = totalitarian
2. Both impracticable eliminate unregulated economic competition if applied on vast scale, to promote political unity and social harmony.

Differences:

1. Plato: equal abnegation while Modern equal division
2. For ruling classes only. ` Affects all
3. To prevent concentration of eco & pol Modern POL to economic class.
4. Abolition of family + Property Only property
5. Doesn’t touch the lower class for the labor class
6. Aristocratic: not by the people `
7. In case of property Common renunciation in case of children common ownership.

Plato the First Feminist:

1. Women must be taken out and rescued from her ignorant servitude and given intellectual independence.
2. Equality between man and woman in guardian class.
3. No fundamental difference between man and woman, of degree not of kind because they can administrate, guard in both civil and military capacity.
4. Assigned special functions to regulate marriages and rear children.
5. He discourage polygamy and one must be heavily fined if remain single after 35.
6. He was against excessive drinking. His concern for women was more for their duties than rights.

Criticism of Platonic Communism:

1. Ignore human nature and the importance of the property.
2. Half communism (only for the guardian classes) would kill diversity.
3. May lead to indolence and he failed to establish a correlation b/w Politics and economics.
4. He ignores the healthy influence of familial life and the principle of unity in diversity rather than dual uniformity with the help of proper system of education.

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