Hoppe Democracy The God That Failed Epub 20
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Hoppe's political vision is cyclical: the only way to escape the disorder and violence of democratic politics is to move back to a private, anarchic social order. Hoppe is a philosophical anarchist, who believes the State is fundamentally flawed and corrupt, and is therefore amenable to a more basic solution. The restoration of monarchs is for Hoppe a natural and even desirable solution to the problems of democracy.
Actually, the neo-reactionaries are anarchists, and their ideology is a rearguard version of it. Hoppe is no more of a classical liberal than Moldbug: he demands the State be made small and ruthless. The natural ending of Hoppe's political philosophy is not state anarchy, but something much more dark and menacing.
To any but the most hard-core, therefore, democracy is not a desirable political system. Rather, it is the political system that the hard-core desire, and which they attempt to create. But no matter how carefully or how competently it is set up, democracy will not be a democracy in the sense that they want to mean it. It will be a hapless, impotent, outmoded holdover, and its haplessness will have been entirely self-inflicted.
As in Hobbes, the whole of public policy is a Hobbesian competition between the ruling oligarchy and the members of the society it dominates. It is the condition of existence of government. The ruling oligarchy is always itself a ruling oligarchy, and any pretence of popular consent is a fraud. For the purpose of domination, the oligarchy may conscript or coerce. To convince the mass of its legitimacy, it must be presented as nothing more than a charade. The more it cultivates its image as a full-time job, the more it must tell itself that it is so busy that it has no time to think, and the more it must compete rhetorically with other aspiring oligarchies for the favor of the media, the universities, and the judiciary. The democracy will be a kind of game, whose winners and losers are preordained, and whose score is measured by how many were eliminated from the game, rather than by what they win.
Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed has received considerable attention among a variety of circles. The American Free Press chose it as a top book in 2001 and 2006, and named him to their list of top 100 most influential conservatives in the same years. Walter Williams of the Cato Institute cited it as his favorite book in 2003.[40] Hoppe's The Principle of Least Power was selected by the Center for the Study of the Public Domain for its entire library in 2011. The 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. For the hardcore neo-reactionaries, democracy is not merely doomed, it is doom itself. Fleeing it approaches an ultimate imperative. The subterranean current that propels such anti-politics is recognizably Hobbesian, a coherent dark enlightenment, devoid from its beginning of any Rousseauistic enthusiasm for popular expression. Predisposed, in any case, to perceive the politically awakened masses as a howling irrational mob, it conceives the dynamics of democratization as fundamentally degenerative: systematically consolidating and exacerbating private vices, resentments, and deficiencies until they reach the level of collective criminality and comprehensive social corruption. The democratic politician and the electorate are bound together by a circuit of reciprocal incitement, in which each side drives the other to ever more shameless extremities of hooting, prancing cannibalism, until the only alternative to shouting is being eaten. 827ec27edc