In the Eighth Book of The Republic , Plato rather unceremoniously defines political leaders in a democracy as “those who deprive the rich of their estates to distribute them among the people, at the same time taking care to reserve the larger part for themselves.”
En el libro octavo de La República, Platón define de forma más bien brusca a los líderes políticos de una democracia como “aquellos que quitan su hacienda a los ricos y reparten algo al pueblo, aunque quedándose ellos con la mayor parte”.