Leader & Law

Leader & Law

To have a stable and strong nation, there are many important elements which affect it, especially politics. However, nowadays law becomes a wonderful tool and very effective for the rich, sometimes nothing with the poor. Many leaders who only know to protect, to care for their chair. Besides, many politicians prefer to use trickery and force than law in politics to get their purpose. 

We come back with in the age of Plato, he divided society to become 3 groups:

* The first is educated class. He called them philosophers. They are considered the most important class in society because they lead and give policies and laws for the nation. This class has to be masterful, because they guides and give the law, policies to develop state.

* The second is soldier who protect nation. They use force and power to protect state, create a peace for state and go to invade and expand territory.

* The third is worker who seek the food. They focus on produce food which support not only for themself but also for soldier, all society.

He also said that: To have a stable, strong state, three groups have to a close connection, live in harmony and cooperate to build state.

We can see clearly, Plato focused on the educated class - “wise philosopher” who are masterful in politics. He cared for how to have a good relationship and live in harmony between leader, soldier and people. He believed that is the best way to build a strongest state.

However, nowadays, leader of some countries do not pay attention to the “first class”, even people, they only focus on how to protect their safety in politics. For example, Communist in Vietnam.

Communist only focus to build a strong government with force and power. Clearly, they forget to train and educate national leaders. Really, they spend too much money and time to “protect” and build a regime which is not suitable with development of society and cannot help to develop state. So, they do not know this regime needs to change or they are too extreme and selfish in policies?