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Meaning of clocracia




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

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clocracia is incorrectly written, and should be written as "oclocracia" as meaning: Etymologically means the crowd or from the tumult of the Greek ochlos ochlou Government: disorderly crowd, confusion, mass of men and krateo: send, to direct, to govern. According to Aristotle, Greek philosopher from the 4th century b. C., and other thinkers is a degeneration and corruption of democracy or rule of the people. This philosopher, who met in their classical Athens, the democratic system that is alternated with tyrannical periods, distinguished between pure political systems, those in which the rulers are looking for the collective good and impure systems, those that seeks the good of a few. The oclocracia also called demagoguery is an impure political system led by the corrupt, despotic and disorganized rabble.

  



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