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68: Robert Michels - The Iron Law of Oligarchy

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Importance of Expert Leadership

With the growth of working class organization there must be an accompanying growth in the value, the importance and the authority of the leaders. Michael's writes quote: The principle of the division of labor creates specialism. Just as the patient obeys the doctor because the doctor knows better than the patient, so must the political patient submit to the guidance of party leaders who possess a political competence impossible of attainment by the rank and file. Thus democracy ends by undergoing transformation into a form of government by the best, into an aristocracy. End quote.

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