Atheris wrote:Fauzjhia wrote:
this is Plato opinion of Democracy. The Idiots people killed socrates because he was asking too many questions, they are obviously too dumb to be allowed to vote on important policies, only those who take time to think, the philosophers, should be allowed to vote on important policies.
obviously the marxists-leninists claims to be thoses philosophers, just like the priests from catholic church claimed it. I really doubt Plato though about ideological or religious group when he was thinking about philosophers, but this is what happened.
The liberal democracies of Europe and the United States are vastly different from the authoritarian plutocracies of Athenean Greece.
how does that negate the point, the opinion the marxists-leninists have about the people, who would be too stupid to make the important choice. after all, Hitler as first elected, by a free vote. how does that negate the point that marxists-leninist believe the people, if allowed to vote in a socialist state, would choose oppression for themselves, and bring down socialism.
they believe people are too stupid to vote. that's even reflected in today's China's constitution, regarding the role of the Communist party of China