Introducing Aristotle

The interesting point is that Aristotle accepts the need to defend slavery – which suggests that if it were indisputably “natural”, no defence would be needed. Ideas that serve to justify unjustifiable power are called ideology or false consciousness.

Human societies have a purpose, which is to meet the needs of people who, as individuals, lack self-sufficiency. When these needs, all of them, are met, then the society is at its most fully developed state and should remain thus.