The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies - Ryszard Legutko
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Communism
Liberalism
Modernity
Totalitarianism
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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades - and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.
In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has, over time, lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet-style brutality.
Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices.
Listening Length: 9 hours and 6 minutes
https://www.amazon.com/The-Demon-in-Democracy-audiobook/dp/B074SX41T3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898468-the-demon-in-democracy
Professor Ryszard Legutko: The Tyranny of Liberalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_RVzyCSL4g
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 4.5/5
February 27th, 2021
The obligatory:
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.
– Winston Churchill
February 27th, 2021
Yeah, but some young ‘uns want a chance to sample all of the truly worst kinds in each successive generation. Because learning from history is for chumps & bozos.
February 27th, 2021
The Demon in all forms of government is idealism, determinism, the false promise that things could be better if planned from a certain centre, by a certain group of “enlightened” representatives. Plato called this “democracy”, Marx called it “communism.” Guess he never read Popper’s “The Open Society and its Enemies.”
February 27th, 2021
… or maybe he did?
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