Just as journalists and columnists have had their monopoly of wisdom challenged by free opinion sites on the web, so the party bosses would find their monopoly of power challenged.

This prevents monopoly of power and requires those in positions of authority to consult with many others in the process of exercising it.

This resulted in a change in the party's role in society from holding a monopoly of power to being an ideological leader.

Only a small section of society came to have a monopoly of power, which they exercised over the rest of the society.

The idea was to remove the monopoly of power enjoyed by the small number of rich patricians to the advantage of the very large number of poor ones.