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Philosophically and textually a pretty weak article - I don't see, why it deserves thousands of upvotes. For example, the quote from Mill: "Great fortunes are continually accumulated, and seldom redistributed." seems be invented out of wholecloth - I can't find a source about it anywhere.
And since he's specifically named: It's not entirely unreasonable but also not to be taken for granted that Plato's writings like the Politeia (mistranslated often as "The Repulblic") are representative of his own political views. If you look at the text, the book isn't even primarily about politics - the idea of a well ordered state is taken as a comparative value of what the ideal human soul would look like.
There's nothing here!