The Evolution of Political Regimes
Plato, using Socrates as his mouthpiece, wrote the following condemnation of Athenian democracy in his Republic: [The citizens] contemptuously rejected temperance as unmanliness… Insolence they term breeding, and anarchy liberty, and waste magnificence, and impudence courage… The father gets accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son […]