Democracy - The God That Failed - The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Transaction Publishers

2001

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780765800886

Democracy: The God That Failed is a 2001 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.