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This is ANCIENT. Plato wrote this in Republic.
ETA: It has been a while, so I don't know the exact order Plato's cycle has.
In the Republic, it basically goes: aristocracy (of philosophers) -> aristocracy (of warriors) -> oligarchy -> democracy -> tyranny