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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

What can Polybius teach us about the current political crisis?

Polybius saw the history of regimes as a moral cycle: democracy degenerates into ochlocracy when virtue disappears. Today, the loss of elite training and the decline of universities recall this mechanism: without education, freedom collapses and the crowd rules in place of reason.

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