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Is it just me or are leftists misrepresenting and flat out lying about Socrates' critique of Democracy? They claim that the reason he hated it was because he was worried about the population being 'too dumb' to make well educated votes, and would ultimately lead to a tyranny. They conveniently leave out the fact that he spoke of the over indulgent decadence that comes with freedom and democracy that people would become so overly concerned with with other people's liberty that they'd practically reduce themselves to animals in an effort towards total equality, and through this chaos would come a reactionary who exploits the now severely weakened population and take it over. Am I wrong here?
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>>2714233
How is the second nareative a anti-leftist one?
Communism and socialism are economic systems, not political ones, and do not imply direct democracy through their premises (in fact we have not seen any direct communist democracy in the XX century).
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>>2714258
Most contemporary leftists believe in those systems because of the apparent equality they entail. Which directly contradicts socrates' warning. He's essentially arguing that tyranny from democracy is inevitable, because as a population becomes more self aware of their liberties, the faster they degenerate until their society collapses.
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>>2714233
I think you mean Plato's critique which he attributed to Socrates.
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>>2714233
It is almost as if the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots...
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Plato was a fucking retard
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>>2714394
that's not what plato condones at all
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>>2714233
Plato wasn't that smart
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