This work has been declared by the AHA board as historic, and is superseded by Humanist Manifesto III. The Manifesto is a product of many minds. It was designed to represent a developing point of view, not a new creed.
Re: the iron law of oligarchy Aug22-09, 10:47 PM JRDunassigned: The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German syndicalist sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. This is actually wrong.
Adolf Gasser stated the following requirements for a representative democracy in order to remain stable, unaffected by the Iron Law of Oligarchy: 1  Society has to be built up from bottom to top. 2  These free people join or form local communities. 3  Local communities join together into a higher unit e.g. a canton. 4  There is no hierarchical bureaucracy. 5  T