How Did Plato Criticize Communism

In Plato’s Republic, he states that “Tyranny probably does not evolve from any constitution other than democracy, then-- the most severe and cruel slavery evolving from what I suppose is the most eminent degree of freedom”, which highlights his personal views on the evolution of an uncontrolled democratic rule to the despotism it transforms into overtime (Plato, 564a). Why might Plato have any means to criticize a form of government that is ruled by the very people that he is trying to protect in Kallipolis? Many people in the city are not all educated, and are in fact ignorant when making decisions that might endanger the justness of their souls. The ignorant masses will have trust in any person who has a sway with words, like rhetoricians, who will persuade them to commit unjust crimes against the well-being of their souls (Brazil, 2007). Plato would have possible objections to the …show more content…
However, in an essence he still believes that the top one percent should still rule, but only those that have the wisdom and knowledge to provide a pathway for a just society. I do not agree with his criticisms that the top one percent of wise should rule because they do not know the masses personally and cannot relate to them and see what exactly they need. I believe that the voices of the masses should be heard and taken into consideration when in regards to the ruling of their own society. No one better understands what it is like to live in the poorer communities or the middle-class communities than the people who reside there and only they know what needs to be addressed; the top percent may have ideas of what will make the society just but the people can help them put those ideas into