The diseased bodies politic represented the inception of Communist and Fascist thought, giving rise to radical political ideologies, and influencing the regimes of nefarious world leaders along the way. Political theorists historically have and remain influenced by Platonism and Athenian democracy, their interpretations of authority and society greatly differ, expanding into diverse realms of thought far removed from the initial conception of polity; these are known as the diseased bodies politic. Historian Alan Ryan writes that “[t]he institutionalization of thought that ‘some are free’ is the Greek polis,” adding that this limited politically active citizenship to property-owning males, (Ryan, A., p. 667). Marx would reject this elitist perspective, calling for the annihilation of private property, (Marx, K., p. 18). The diseased bodies politic represent the disbursement and mutation of Plato’s political theory to the limits of catastrophe, though each writer held reverence for their distinct view. While each political era was built upon its former state, the diseased bodies politic fabricated revolutionary ideas far removed from traditional political thought first expressed in Ancient Greece, (Ryan, A., p. 5).