>Should the people rule, or be ruled? What are some

>>9864513
Coriolanus.

He thinks the people are idiots and that they should stay plebs while the patricians get shit done, but that attitude leads to his downfall

The conquest of bread

Montesquieu?
I think both rulers and the people are a danger to the functioning of a nation. Europe will succumb to populism and ironically it is the elites fault.

The brothers karamemezov

>>9864526
Coriolanus could have destroyed Rome. His sympathy to his mother lead to his downfall (not that that is a bad trait to have).

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>>9864513
The people should be ruled until they can be instilled with proper values and philosophies and then they can rule themselves.

>>9864513
I, Claudius.

Takeaway? Neither really work, but Republicanism was/is the lesser of two evils.

>>9864733
But values and philosophies change per generation. In 3 generations of ruling themselves the harmful ideologies will have to be exterminated again. So you create a system of cyclic extermination either you will live through the culling or your children will.

I'd rather the world descend into chaos than suffer that bitter tedium.

>>9864513
Unfortunately, the only way it's ever been is the masses ruled by the elite. Read the creature from jekyll island.

>>9864513
Aristotle - Politics

>>9864513
Either way as long as the amount of people and land area aren't very large

Leviathan is all that needs to be said on the subject tbqhwyf

>>9864736
>>9865058
Tell me about these books.