Thursday, September 8, 2022
Newly Uncovered Emails Show Blake Masters’ Long History of Hating Democracy – Mother Jones
Two of the articles were by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a German economist best known for his 2001 jeremiad Democracy: The God That Failed. One, a 1995 paper titled "The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order," argued that "the historic transition from monarchy to democracy represents not progress but civilizational decline." In addition to advocating "the abdication of democracy," Hoppe wanted people to accept a "natural order" under which a "voluntarily acknowledged 'natural' elite—a nobilitas naturalis" reigns supreme.
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