Read it.
Read it
Why
It's funny how he goes into this to make an argument for ancap but ends up making one of the most compelling contemporary arguments for monarchy
>Hans-Hermann Hoppe (/ˈhɒpə/;[4] German: [ˈhɔpə]; born September 2, 1949) is a German-born American Austrian School economist, and paleolibertarian anarcho-capitalist
gross
If I can find a good copy for under $40 I will
why can’t we just go back to fulgurous rape war paganism? libertarianism is gay
NO! absolutism bad! feudalism good!
Actual democracies have failed (and that's a good thing--imagine if the average citizen had a say in how to run things).
But democracy as a god/religion is still alive and well and it keeps the system stable.
Save time and just read What is to be done. Life is short you dorks
Representative democracy is ultra cuck tier
Authoritarian agendas
Bootlicker
Tell me why I should read this when I can just read The Dark Enlightenment and Moldbug and get this without the ancap libertarian nonsense
Representative democracy is shit.
Direct democracy is the answer to both the problems of that and monarchy.
Fucking ancaps
Hoppe writes better. Moldbug reads Hoppe.
Not to advocate Hoppe, but you be able to say you didn’t read “moldbug”. Indeed avoid even mentioning him.
>Direct democracy is the answer
Only if it's restricted to a certain demographic (educated wealthy males, for example).
If its someone you didnt vote for you basically have to lick their boots regardless of your choice. And the fact theyre basically put into a higher class than you
He is right about his condemnation of democracy, but he is forgetting (in fact, probably doesn't even know) why we have a democratic political system in the first place. The whole point of the democracy is to appease the citizens in that state so they do not get resentful or angry and overthrow the government. It is only when the citizens themselves reach a certain power or population where it becomes necessary to run the state in this way (for if they are sufficiently weak, you can uphold a caste system). That is why in ancient Greece, for instance, there was a combination of the two systems, where the plebeians slaves and women did not get a vote or say in any decision because they were weak enough to subdue and control, whereas the powerhouse warriors, commanders, and geniuses all got a vote because weakening and subduing them was no longer really an option. So, if we (I use we out of kindness) really want a caste system, how would we put it into place in our current hyperadvanced civilization of billions? How would we destroy democracy? We would have to first take away the "rights" and technology we have bestowed on the sick and decaying people, kill half and put the other half into slavery, then, whoever is more healthy we extend more privileges and freedom to, all the way up to the top where one person, or a group of people, that is, full human beings who have not been "specialized" to one task but instead have the power to engage with all, the philosopher-artist-kings, Nietzsche's overmen.
>educated wealthy males just vote in their own group interest forever.
This is not true because revolutionary desire is caused by democracy not the absence of it. Monarchies were perfectly stable for thousands of years until they weren't, and now probably never can be again because everyone has deluded themselves into thinking liberty is the ultimate good.
I read it around 2017, it was a brutal redpill.
You are making the mistake of thinking all "group interests" are equal, which is a mistake that could only be made, 1. by a slave, or 2. by an unintelligent citizen in the hyperadvanced ressentiment-cooling system we have built. For are the heights of African art (wood and stone tribal masks) equal to the heights of American art (the technological dexterity necessary for your run of the mill videogame)? Are the heights of African commandment (Shaka Zulu) equal to the heights of European commandment (Alexander)? Are the heights of African philosophy (ritualistic religions) equal to the heights of European philosophy (quantum physics and Nietzsche)?
That’s not a bootlicker. I’m not licking Trump’s boots.
I second this Segmented community organization. Real polis run politics and none of that bastard statecraft masquerading as politics
That exactly how it doesn’t work.
You are making a mistake. The purpose of direct democracy for all Is to get everyone interested involved. Their education follows. Read Bookchin
Roughly speaking, yes. But that would still create a better society overall. Don't project your small-mindedness onto others.
>revolutionary desire is caused by democracy
Lol, so an abstract political system caused people to not want to be slaves? You are so absurdly ignorant on politics and psychology that your post reeks of you having never studied either.
You are making the mistake of thinking everyone who is "interested" is equal, and are also making the mistake of thinking people who vote educate themselves, and making the mistake of thinking they have the time to educate themselves, and thinking they can even educate themselves, and thinking they want to educate themselves. Like all pseudointellectuals, it's like you have never talked or communicated with another person.
No not the system itself but the ideological effects of it. People only desire freedom from authority when they are made to believe that it's desirable. People didn't overthrow the Tsar just because he was bad, but because of the promise of a new democratic collectivist society. Without the effects of those ideas none of it would have ever happened.
of course butterly hasnt spoken to another person, he's a creepy tranny nobody would want to talk to.
>No not the system itself but the ideological effects of it.
The desire precedes it's solution, not the other way around. For what is the cause of those ideological effects? A desire for that ideology. And why is there a desire for that ideology? Because people do not want to be slaves.
>People didn't overthrow the Tsar just because he was bad, but because of the promise of a new democratic collectivist society.
And why do you think that "promise" was created? Because they wanted it.