(from elsewhere) —“Aristocracy, in a propertarian social order, would be (in v

(from elsewhere)

—“Aristocracy, in a propertarian social order, would be (in very general lines) established by the acquisition of property rights under the condition of defending others’ property rights with violence.”—

There you go. 🙂

Suggestion. I do not see aristocracy as providing positive direction (politics), but negative judgement (law). As those who have earned and held wealth over generations, the upper aristocracy forms a market for ideas that will improve the entire polity. I do not make the mistake that aristocracy leads by command except in war. Only that aristocracy creates markets wherein only those with merit rise from undomesticated animal to peer: sovereign human.

–“Hierarchy is the only organized way a people can coexist.”–

um. I say that hierarchy is the way we exist because of the demonstrated differences in our abilities and value to one another, and therefore the way we organize; and the only way we can organize; and if possessed of property rights, do organize; but do so voluntarily, meritocratically, and in one another’s interests; under rule of natural law, not rule of command.

This is a more subtle method of describing natural processes when our natural abilities are freed by property rights.