Chomsky on Madison

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Mar 31 06:04:17 PST 2000



>
>Aristotle suggests that polity is probably the best that can
>be achieved in practical terms and this is a form of rule by
>the many not the few....
> Cheers, Ken Hanly

Touche...

But Aristotle's "polity" looks a lot more like what we would call an "oligarchy"--slaves and metics and women, no? And Aristotle does not think that "polity" is a form of government that can sustain itself over any extent of territory greater than what we would think of as one small town...

Brad DeLong



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