Woke ideology imposes a tribal top-down cultural control structure on a networked civilization, something that only works, ironically, with a very peaceful and tolerant cultural base environment.
The “Greek” philosopher might have been Machiavelli in his Discourses on Livy.
There are some interesting ideas about political systems where only those competent to vote on a particular topic get to vote in CJ Cherryh’s Cyteen. Cyteen won both Nebula and Locus awards for the best scifi novel in 1989.