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Comment: ‘The aims persued by revolutionaries, like the origins of revolution, are the same in tyrannies and kingships as they are under regular Constitutions.’

  • UPSC 1991
  • Western Political Thought

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The statement opens Aristotle's treatment of monarchy in Politics Book V, chapter 10. Having explained why democracies, oligarchies, aristocracies and polities fall, he says the same account applies almost equally to royal and to tyrannical rule. The psychology of revolt, he claims, is universal: one-man rule changes how people rebel, not why. That holds for…

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  • Revolution in Book V
  • Why Monarchies Are No Exception
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