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To: TradicalRC

Yes it was. It's also pretty insignificant in the general body of his work. Written specifically to rabble rouse. Simply calling for a 'dictatorship of the proletariat' isn't my idea of describing a form of Goverment. Plato's Republic it ain't.


246 posted on 10/25/2005 9:36:07 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Yes it was. It's also pretty insignificant in the general body of his work. Written specifically to rabble rouse.

It is his most widely read work.

250 posted on 10/25/2005 9:52:44 AM PDT by TradicalRC (I trust my Church more than my government; why would I grant more power to the state?)
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To: Borges
Plato's Republic it ain't.

Plato is the godfather of all dictators.

251 posted on 10/25/2005 9:53:48 AM PDT by TradicalRC (I trust my Church more than my government; why would I grant more power to the state?)
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