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In that respect, Aristotle seems
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to add an economic or sociological category
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to the fundamentally political categories of few and many.
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The few are not simply defined quantitatively
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but they are defined, as it were, also sociologically.
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The rich, the poor, again defined as, the many and defined by him as the poor.
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It was not, you have to see when you read these passages,
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it was not Karl Marx
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but rather it was Aristotle who first identified
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the importance of what we would call class struggle, in politics.
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Every regime is in many ways a competition between classes.
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But where he differs from Marx, is not that he believes that the