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In regards to Plato, I don't think he had someone like Lenin in mind. From what I remember of The Republic he envisioned that philosopher-kings would be trained from an early age for rule and that one philosopher-king would be in charge at a time (it would be a collective rule). Of course, this is problematic, as any system seems to be. Your points about the Chinese system are thought-provoking. It will be interesting to see if they change their environmental and human rights positions when they have "caught up" to the developed world in terms of an average citizens living standards. Right now they are simply putting economic growth over any form of rights you can think of.