Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson - Ferdinand Mount
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Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in modern times it’s become a strangely neglected subject. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.
There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.
In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Marx was wrong. This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.
There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump. The saga of Boris Johnson and Brexit frequently crops up in this author’s narrative as a vivid, if Lilliputian instance of the same phenomenon.
The final part of this book describes how and why would-be Caesars come to grief, from the Gunpowder Plot to Trump’s march on the Capitol and the ejection of Boris Johnson by his own MPs, and ends with a defence of the grubby glories of parliamentary politics and a thought-provoking roadmap of the way back to constitutional government.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 4/5
September 30th, 2023
I have a vivid memory of Mr Mount as perhaps the most boring, and irritating, conversationalist I ever met. But perhaps it was a bad day for him, because he certainly convinced a heap of folk in the Thatcher cabinet that he was worth listening to a few years later.
I shall probably give this one a whirl, if only to find out how Mr Mount connects Macaulay with liberal democracy (or Boris Johnson with dictatorial ambition without including Margaret Thatcher in the palaver).
I shall give it a whirl. But perhaps I am just immune to Ferdinand’s charm.
September 30th, 2023
Brilliant! Thanks!
September 30th, 2023
“I have vivid memory of Mr Mount as perhaps most boring, & irritating, conversationalist I ever met” - No, you really don’t. That didn’t happen either. No offence, of course.
Caesarean gratitude, hdgdf.
October 1st, 2023
Thanks for the upload
October 8th, 2023
I can hardly describe the disappointment I’ve felt listening to this book. The book is leftist propaganda disguised as history/political philosophy. Instead of delving into how dictators and strongmen operate, the author spends most of the time shilling for immigration, criticising modern politicians and their policies.
March 19th, 2024
Are you lonesome, tonight, in the Elba of your mind? Better there than purgatory of a digital Saint Helena.
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