Socrates's Political Philosophy

The Republic is the first work of political philosophy. It's 300 pages that just... Of a dialogue. So such a weighty topic, why didn't he just write it in a treatise? You guys have thoughts? I've been taught this book. We're talking about you pre-use. This is a fundamentally radical work,. It covers such touchy subjects as infanticide censorship and things like that. Even if you disagree with the solutions, you have to agree that Socrates is raising some basic political issues that every regime has to try to wrestle with.