The First Collectivist
November 18th, 2009
By Brianna Aubin When the Communists, Fascists, and Socialists started advocating their ideas around the turn of the 20th century, they billed them as completely new and radical ideologies. Little did they know that they had already been scooped… by a guy who had been dead for literally over two millenia. Their predecessor’s name? Plato [...]
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Tags: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, communism, fascism, Plato, socialism, The Republic
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