Another example is Plato’s sociological and economic historicism, his emphasis upon the economic background of the political life and the historical development; a theory revived by Marx under the name ‘historical materialism’. A third example is Plato’s most interesting law of political revolutions, according to which all revolutions presuppose a disunited ruling class (or ‘élite’); a law which forms the basis of his analysis of the means of arresting political change and creating a social equilibrium, and which has been recently rediscovered by the theoreticians of totalitarianism,
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