| This all is the most minor aspect of Trattato di Sociologia Generale. Treatise on General Sociology, the translation is the 4 volume The Mind and Society. The whole point is that we have these arbitrary subject divisions of knowledge for convenience. Physics, economics, biology, chemistry, etc. Then he spends 4 volumes trying to describe what he sees as the mechanics of society without worrying about these divisions of knowledge. I have been stuck on volume 2 for years. It is brutal read. A Pareto distribution is a type of power law distribution. 80/20 is Joseph Juran's pathetic simplification. It is something MBAs can easily remember. It is like the most minor and trivial of Pareto's thought. The main idea of his thought is that society is largely based on types of "non-logical conduct". Pseudo-logical conduct. The best I have been able to understand it is that Pareto believed society operates on unthinking, almost quasi religious beliefs, then after the fact we invent logical and scientific sounding reasons for the action/behavior and fool ourselves into believing the action/behavior was logically arrived at from the start. His work is trying to catalog these non-logical conducts like a butterfly collector collecting types of butterflys. Basically, nothing much at all to do with 80/20 or fascism. Pretty sure all the big Italian political philosophers from that time believed in the Iron Law Of Oligarchy politically.
Democracy being basically a type of performance art while it doesn't matter the system, you always get oligarchy in reality. |