“granting that the discontent of the masses might succeed in deposing a ruling class, inevitably, as we shall later show, there would have to be another organized minority within the masses themselves to discharge the functions of a ruling class.”
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One Nation serves a hard lesson on elite theory | The Australian Natives' Association
What does grass-roots popularity offer parliamentarians? very little. In Australia’s constitutional framework, the iron laws of oligarchy are well entrenched. The question of national policy and law is not often dictated by the common desires of the people…
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