Socrates Ideas Of Equality For The City

In book VIII, we see Plato, through Socrates, trying to rationalize democracy and how governmental structures eventually corrode over time. I also see Socrates wrestling with the same problem that modern America wrestles with and that is of personal freedom versus equality for all. Are my own freedoms worth giving up in order to secure equality for the city as a whole? I also see Socrates drawing on ideas that resemble that of capitalism or of a proto-capitalistic society. As society in the city, “degrades”, it increasingly has the tendencies and characteristics of capitalism. There are movements within the city to move away from old ideas of virtue and wisdom to ones of more humanly desires, mainly private property and wealth. Both of which

The city cannot fight a war because of a fear of the people who, because of they being so poor, want to rebel and would probably rebel if armed and given a chance. Again, there is a fear of the ruling class in today’s society of trying to uplift the people and capitalism tries to hold back the people from reaching their true potential. Karl Marx talked a lot about this in terms of the sociology of capitalism. Marx saw that people under capitalism held a false class consciousness in which we were unaware of the injustices of capitalism and that capitalism and capitalistic pursuits blinded us from seeing where we were actually in society as slaves to capitalism. 4. There is no idea of specialization in an oligarchy. So the rulers have money-making jobs on the side and now in this oligarchical city, there are people without any class or role which includes beggars or criminals who Socrates calls drones. Capitalism requires specialization of labor and it is because we as human-beings have moved away from what sociologists would call a mechanical solidarity (where roles in society all the same so in traditional society, you would farm land, bake bread, and have to mend horseshoes yourself) to a more organic solidarity (where I might still farm my land, but I have a baker for bread and a blacksmith to mend my horseshoes) which requires specialization and therefore increases productivity and efficiency which are both key in

Those poor people are angry and resentful towards the wealthy and so they plot revolution and the rich ignore them as they are blinded by wealth. The poor revolt and kill off a few rich people, but they set up the democracy where everyone has an equal share. The city is guided by freedom and so while there is freedom, there is no order or harmony in this city. Yet again, the transition from oligarchy to democracy can be viewed in terms of Marxist and capitalist thought. Marx foresaw a time when the people would have class consciousness under capitalism and see that the abuses of capitalism. People would see that they are merely tools for the robber barons and nothing more. This would cause people to revolt and rise up against the wealthy and establish themselves under communism. Of course, the city here is moving from an oligarchy to revolution which then establishes a democracy, but the democracy described could be seen as communistic in a few ways. One way is that there are no real definitions for who is able to rule and who isn’t. While Marx would have said government could be used under communism in order to guide the revolution and establish communism, eventually, under communism, there would be no governmental structures. This is similar to the democracy established in the city.