Democracy: The God That Failed. Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Join us for a presentation and discussion on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed, where we unpack his bold claim that the shift from monarchy to democracy did not end coercive rule, it simply changed the management.

Hoppe argues that democratic leaders, unlike kings with long-term ownership stakes, have little incentive to think beyond the next election cycle, fuelling redistribution, higher time preference and what he sees as moral and economic decline.

He writes: “If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”

From critiques of socialism and social democracy to provocative takes on immigration, integration and property rights, Hoppe charts a sweeping alternative vision: radical secession, full privatisation, free trade paired with owner-consented immigration, cultural conservatism and ultimately a competitive private-law society without government at all.

Come along, try the schnitzel and ponder Hoppe’s wild suggestion that the path to a truly conservative society may lie in the last place conservatives expect to find it: a rigorous, property-based stateless order.

The book is available on PDF at:

https://www.riosmauricio.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Hoppe_Democracy_The_God_That_Failed.pdf

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/20163822/democracy-the-god-that-failedpdf