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14250963 No.14250963 [Reply] [Original]

Why do so many people misinterpret this book as advocating for Communism? Plato was clearly arguing for a stratified caste system, in which the ruling caste would be occupied by the most moral and intelligent members of society. The passages about holding everything in common and not owning property are clearly intended only for the highest caste, as a way of preventing the rulers from becoming corrupted by personal ambition. Yet everyone I mention this book to either loves it because Communism, or hates it because Communism.

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14250969

BECAUSE DICTATORSHIP AND AUTHORTARIANISM = BAD! COMMUNISM = DICTATORSHIP, THEREFORE PLATO = COMMUNIST REGIME

>> No.14250982

Because those idiots don't know real fascism when they see it.

>> No.14251014

>>14250963
>hurr durr plato was a fashie nazi
>noooo plato was filthy commie

The telltale signs of a pseud

>> No.14251016

it was a unique caste system of his own design that was Communism for the upper class and Capitalism for the lower class, to put it brieefly

>> No.14251022

I have never once heard anyone say that Plato was advocating for communism in the Republic.