This work has been declared by the AHA board as historic, and is superseded by Humanist Manifesto III. The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed.
Re: the iron law of oligarchy Aug22-09, 10:47 PM JRDunassigned: The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. This is actually wrong.
Plutocracy is the rule of money: rich people dominate society and politics. Oligarchy is when a few people share political power, at the expense of everyone else. Aristocrâ¦acy, although it can be an oligarchy, is the rule of the elite, under a social class system.