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Plato's Republic And Nazism

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Of the words: Nazism, fascism, scientific racism, anti-Semitism, inferiority, slavery, Adolf Hitler, and Plato’s Republic, which doesn’t belong? For a westerner, raised on the teachings of Plato, it is possible they would select “Plato’s Republic” as the outlier in that sentence, but this is not the case. Plato’s Republic presents the framework for one of the world’s most deadly regimes: the Nazi party, hundreds of years before its emergence. Plato’s proposals of infanticide, the superiority of certain classes, innate slavery, a totalitarian government, and in-depth eugenics programs qualify him as a probable influencer of Hitler’s concentration camps. The similarities between Nazi theory and the proposals in the Republic are undeniable, however
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