China already people's republic.
Plato is totalitarian republic.
So we can argue that China is Plato republic.
In time the ruling class of Russia became acquainted with
Byzantine culture. They were dazzled by it, and sought to import it
into their wilderness domains in the north. In this way they
imposed on the Slav peoples many of the accessories of the
Byzantine Empire, such as Orthodox Christianity, the Byzantine
alphabet, the Byzantine calendar, the used of domed ecclesiastical
architecture, the name Czar (Caesar) for their ruler, and
innumerable other traits.
Most important of all, they imported the Byzantine totalitarian
autocracy, under which all aspects of life, including
political, economic, intellectual, and religious, were regarded as
departments of government, under the control of an autocratic
ruler.
These beliefs were part of the Greek tradition, and were
based ultimately on Greek inability to distinguish between state
and society. Since society includes all human activities, the
Greeks had assumed that the state must include all human
activities.
In the days of Classical Greece this all-inclusive entity was
called the polis, a term which meant both society and
state; in the later Roman period this all-inclusive entity was
called the imperium. The only difference was that the
polis was sometimes (as in Pericles's Athens about 450
B.C.) democratic, while the imperium was always a military
autocracy. Both were totalitarian, so that religion and economic
life were regarded as spheres of governmental activity.
This totalitarian autocratic tradition was carried on to the
Byzantine Empire and passed from it to the Russian state in the
north and to the later Ottoman Empire in the south. In the north
this Byzantine tradition combined with the experience of the
Northmen to intensify the two-class structure of Slav society. In
the new Slav (or Orthodox) Civilization this fusion, fitting
together the Byzantine tradition and the Viking tradition, created
Russia.
From Byzantium came autocracy and the idea of the state as an
absolute power and as a totalitarian power, as well as such
important applications of these principles as the idea that
the state should control thought and religion, that the Church
should be a branch of the government, that law is an enactment of
the state, and that the ruler is semi-divine.
From the Vikings came the idea that the state is a foreign
importation, based on militarism and supported by booty and
tribute, that economic innovations are the function of the
government, that power rather than law is the basis of social life,
and that society, with its people and its property, is the private
property of a foreign ruler.
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