Re: "democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

2020-04-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Why Democracy can never succeed and invariably devolves into rule by oligarchy: Iron law of oligarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory, first developed by the German sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political

Re: "democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

2018-02-25 Thread Steven Schear
or https://mises.org/library/rise-and-fall-society On Feb 25, 2018 5:35 PM, "Steven Schear" wrote: > It seems humanity, historically, has always sought to replace > freedom/anarchy with a series of increasingly specialized social functions > to provide services few if any wished to perform them

Re: "democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

2018-02-25 Thread Steven Schear
It seems humanity, historically, has always sought to replace freedom/anarchy with a series of increasingly specialized social functions to provide services few if any wished to perform themselves. Over time these specialists become governments and then The State. Eventually corruption, environmen

"democracy" vs Monarchy - the Russian conversation

2018-02-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Modern "democracy" makes its own extremely strong case against itself. "Monarchy" is just one form "benevolent dictatorship", when it works, but is anything but benevolent when it doesn't work. Hereditary monarchy consistently descends into something as bad as "democracy" is today. Personality c