Plato on decline of Ideal state:

When Reason declines and gives place to spirit followed by appetite getting the upper hand by over powering both reason and spirit.

Classification of Government:

1. Regal (Rule of One), the Ambitious (rule of few), the oligarchic (rule of few), the democratic (rule of many) & tyranny (rule of One & the worst form)
2. Monarchy (Timocracy if perverted) is the best form of the government to Plato

Plato on Democracy:

He identified democracy with individualism and social dissolution and denounced it because he believed in the rule of trained intellect.

Plato and Marxism:

Marx reversed the aristocracy of intellect with dictatorship of proletariat.


Plato and fascism:

Similarities:

Both against Democracy, Totalitarian, Minority rule, eugenic, repudiate human equality, against unregulated liberty, for devotion to state, try to coordinate all form and aspect of life, stand for supremacy of law & both denies participation to non-free(Plato) and non-fascist.

Differences:

1. Plato against imperialism, for Idealism, Rationalism, subordinates politics to ethics, advocates communism, stands for harmony while
2. Fascism stand for imperialism, realism, Pragmatism, subordinates ethics to politics, very much the antithesis of communism and for struggles for power.
3. Note: Differences are of more fundamental nature than similarities.

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