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  • Democracy: The God That Failed

  • The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order (Perspectives on Democratic Practice)
  • By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe
  • Narrated by: Paul Strikwerda
  • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)
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Summary

This sweeping book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from limited monarchy to unlimited democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy, with all its failings, is a lesser evil than mass democracy but outlines deficiencies in both as systems of guarding liberty. 

By focusing on this transformation from private to public government, the author is able to interpret many historical phenomena, such as rising levels of crime, degeneration of standards of conduct and morality, the decline in security and freedom, and the growth of the mega-state.

In addition, Hoppe deconstructs the classical liberal belief in the possibility of limited government and calls for an alignment of anti-statist conservatism and libertarianism as natural allies with common goals. He defends the proper role of the production of defense as undertaken by insurance companies on a free market and describes the emergence of private law among competing insurers.

The author goes on to assess the prospects for achieving a natural order of liberty. Informed by his analysis of the radical deficiencies of social democracy, and armed with the social theory of legitimation, he foresees secession as the likely future of the US and Europe, resulting in a multitude of region and city-states. 

Democracy: The God That Failed is a brilliant and unflinching work that will be of intense interest to scholars and students of history, political economy, and political philosophy.

©2001 Routledge (P)2021 Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Essential Modern Right Wing Listening

Well spoken, great thinking, a good rebuttal to the myth of free markets leading to cultural decay.

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The equivalent of flat earthism

It is a pamphlet sustaining that democracy’s the worst system possible, without real analysis (see the correlation democracy/criminality!)
No doubts, no nuisances, just a passionate aggressive form of radical libertarian ideas, that others were more able to defend.
The reader is perfect in giving the prophetical and militant tone.
A thought that, probably without wanting, open space to fascism.
I tried to read for understanding better these ideas, but I waste time and money

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