The Case for an Aristocracy.

I believe that a strong case can be made for the formation of an aristocracy. But we must consider several notions as to what would constitute a proper aristocracy.

1. An nobility of race (this is the belief in racial superiority, an aristocracy of blood, the Aryan race).
2. An nobility of intelligence (this is the belief in technocracy, the rule of the inventor, engineer, and scientist).
3. An nobility of learning (this is the idea presented in Plato's republic of the "philosopher-kings").
4. An nobility of wealth (this is the belief in plutocracy - the least preferable of all forms of aristocracy).
5. An nobility of virtue (a noble sainthood).
6. A nobility of producers (this is the "agrarian aristocracy of farmer-producers").
7. An inverse nobility of the oppressed and poor (this is the idea behind liberation theology and the Marxian worship of the proletariat).