Democracy: The God That Failed

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Democracy: The God That Failed
 is a book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, containing a series of thirteen essays on the subject of democracy and concluding with the belief that democracy is the primary cause of the decivilization sweeping the world since World War I, and that it must be delegitimized.

He characterizes democracy as "publicly owned government," which he compares to monarchy—"privately owned government"—to conclude that the latter is preferable; however, Hoppe aims to show that both monarchy and democracy are deficient systems compared to his preferred structure to advance civilization—what he calls the natural order, a system free of both taxation and coercive monopoly in which jurisdictions freely compete for adherents. In his Introduction to the book, he lists other names used elsewhere to refer to the same thing, including "ordered anarchy," "private property anarchism," "anarcho-capitalism," "autogovernment," "private law society," and "pure capitalism."[1]

The title of the work is an allusion to The God That Failed, a 1949 work in which six former communist (or former communist sympathizer) authors describe their experience of and disillusion with communism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=622773

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What Hitler really thought of democracy (in his own words, not Bernie Ecclestone's)

Hitler385_195149a Compare and contrast these two quotes:

"Once for all, we request to be spared being supervised like a pupil by a governess." A. Hitler, 1938

"If you have to keep referring to your grandmother before you do anything I think that's dumb." B. Ecclestone, 2009

OK, so Bernie says he didn't really mean all that about admiring Hitler, but they do seem to share a spooky kind of sexism don't they?

For the rest of Adolf's interesting take on the democratic process you can read this 1938 speech: "I the arch-democrat ..."

http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarc ... tones.html