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68: Robert Michels - The Iron Law of Oligarchy

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Importance of Wages in Politics

Having them be dependent on the party and on the wage they draw from Congress will mean that they are safeguarded against bribery. That's the reasoning in the United States, again, to use a modern example. The worker is owed the social value of his work. But it would be foolish to like hang the entire success or failure of the project and the threat of idealism right? Mikkel's writes, quote, for the great majority of men, idealism alone is an inadequate incentive for the fulfillment of duty.

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