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Board Economics
Re: Economic Totalitarianism
by
username18333
on 20/08/2015, 20:48:25 UTC
That would mean the country [Greece] who invented Democracy ends up with a scheme that eliminates it.


Quote from: Russell Meiggs, "Cleisthenes of Athens: Greek Statesman," Encyclopædia Britannica, 2015  
Cleisthenes of Athens,  Cleisthenes also spelled Clisthenes    (born c. 570 BCE—died c. 508), statesman regarded as the founder of Athenian democracy, serving as chief archon (highest magistrate) of Athens (525–524). Cleisthenes successfully allied himself with the popular Assembly against the nobles (508) and imposed democratic reform. Perhaps his most important innovation was the basing of individual political responsibility on citizenship of a place rather than on membership in a clan.