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68: Robert Michels - The Iron Law of Oligarchy

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Faith of the English Socialists

"Socialism does not signify everything by the people, but everything for the people," Michels writes. The democratic faith that the leaders will do the right thing once put into office is just an article of faith and it doesn't seem to match the reality", he says. "Organization becomes a thing with its own logic, its own incentives, and thus its own goals"

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