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Plato: Utopian or Physician?

Hodges' and Pynes' startling reinterpretation of Plato's Republic¹ contradicts everything that scholars have believed about the ^Republic for 2400 years. According to them, the Republic is not about Plato's real utopia, but about the sick city-states of ancient Greece, which needed guardians and philosopher kings to bring their social illness under control. Plato's true utopian city is quite different, without classes and luxuries, without war and slaves, but with communism for the masses.

How can 2400 years of scholarly interpretation be wrong? Hodges and Pynes provide give an element of the answer by mentioning that Aristotle started everyone off on...