... the state. Plato divides the soul into three parts: the appetitive or of desires, the spiritual or emotional, and the rational part concerned with obtaining wisdom. The highest and best of these three parts is the rational part. Plato then creates a parallel between the soul and the State. The appetitive side represents the workers, the spirited, the soldiers and the rational side represents the guardians or philosopher kings. By this parallel he determines that the best possible ruler for the ... ", were individuals are told a lie about there past and are told a bigger lie in order to s...

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... such a society would be without rulers. Until the ultimate stages are reached, however, communism involves the abolition of private property by a revolutionary movement; responsibility for meeting public needs is then vested in the state (Daniels 177). As a concept of an ideal society, communism is derived from ancient sources, including Plato's Republic and the earliest Christian communes. In the early 19th century, the idea of a communist society was a response of ... the poor and the dislocated to the beginnings of modern capitalism. At ... ...

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... Marx on Democracy, Participating, Voting, and Equality". The 1980's was the last decade of the cold war between the United States of America and the Former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Anti-communist sediment was at an all time high in the United States, mainly to propagate public support for the underground war lead by Central Intelligence Agency against the Soviet Union. Consequently, the majority of scholarly journals whose writings pertained ... and capitalists. She specifically singles out Marx's theory on participatory democracy. Marx, unlike democratic reformist critics su...

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