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2025-04-11 10:48:47
Sociological & political concept that power always tends to concentrate in the hands of a few elites.
Vilfredo Pareto (of Pareto Principal 80/20 fame), Gaetano Mosca who wrote about small organised groups exercising power, Robert Michels who wrote about the Iron Law of Oligarchy, and James Burnham who synthesised it with the Managerial Revolution and our understanding of what we now call the Deep State.
You could say it’s about how power actually works rather than how people think it works, interesting if you’re familiar with ancap ideas about natural voluntary hierarchies.