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to describe class conflict. In Plato's Republic, Socrates is quoted as saying that "any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other [the city] of the rich; these [cities] are at war with one another." He disapproved of oligarchies, in which wealthy property owners take positions of political power in order to dominate the large social class of impoverished commoners. Socrates used the analogy

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