But Somalis say some of its members are believed to be Somali factional leaders with close ties to Ethiopia.

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This raises the question whether it is possible to transform politics to replace enmity and factional conflict with friendship to replace conflict with harmony?

这就产生了一个问题,是否有可能转变政治，以友谊,取代敌对与派系冲突,以和谐取代冲突？

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Plato's famous answer to this is that this city, any city will never be free of conflict, will never be free of factional strife until, in his famous formula, kings become philosophers and philosophers become kings.

柏拉图最著名的回答是,这座城，或任何一座,都将免不了冲突，或是派系斗争，直到施行其著名的方案，国王成为哲学家,哲学家亦成王。

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The middle class he says is able to achieve the confidence of both extreme parties where at least it is sufficiently numerous to avoid the problems : of class struggle and factional conflict.

中间阶级，如他所言,能获致两种极端政党的信任,至少它的人数足以避免,阶级斗争与派系冲突的问题,亚里士多德写到。

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