Of course. And a caste system or a hierarchy is natural, it's just biology which the "liberals" love to deny simply because they are weak, mentally and physically. More or less, the rise of leftism is a natural process. https://biohistory.org/ explains this dynamic at least in part, I believe it to be more complex than that, but it's a good start.
I’m thinking the offshoots of egalitarianism and socialism.
Most democracies still would have had a caste system of some sort.
Of course. And a caste system or a hierarchy is natural, it's just biology which the "liberals" love to deny simply because they are weak, mentally and physically. More or less, the rise of leftism is a natural process. https://biohistory.org/ explains this dynamic at least in part, I believe it to be more complex than that, but it's a good start.