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One of the most provocative statements left by sociologist and thinker Vilfredo Pareto on political theory is: “History is a cemetery of elites.” This phrase was not uttered lightly. It has come to rest like a stake at the very foundation of the sociology of politics, far beyond its own time. Pareto, with this statement, makes a fundamental observation about the nature of power. According to him, history is not the story of peoples, but a cycle of successive elites—minorities who rise to the sta