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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6233 Post contents: Socrates and Plato were called "misodemos"--Haters of Democracy. Their favorite forms of government was the mixed form of government called Classical republics created by the Doric Greeks on Crete and Sparta. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle all noted that tyranny comes out of democracy. It was the worst form of government. Polybius called Democracy--Ochlocracy or "mob rule". Maritain is quite decieved in pushing for democracy. "Democracy is the road to socialism." Karl Marx "Democracy is indispensable to socialism." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Modern Socialism is inseperable from political democracy." Elements of Socialism, pg 337. "The view that democracy and Socialism are inwardly related spread far and wide in the decades which preceded the Bolshevist revolution. Many came to believe that democracy and Socialism meant the same thing, and that democracy without Socialism or Socialism without democracy would not be possible." Socialism, Ludwig von Mises, pg 67. Democracy is the vehicle for Socialism. There are tons of decieved individuals out there especially in the Church about "democracy" whereas St. Robert Bellarmine and St. Thomas Aquinas all advocated the classical republican form of mixed government. No true conservative says anything good about democracy and all conservatives, like our spiritual father Socrates, be called Misodemos. Sent at: 2008 11 22