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Democracy Against Itself - Sustaining an Unsustainable Idea (Hardcover)
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Democracy Against Itself - Sustaining an Unsustainable Idea (Hardcover)
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By their very nature, all democracies have the potential to destroy
themselves. But this fact is too rarely documented by acolytles of
the system. In the decades since Joseph Goebbels, then Reich
Minister of Propaganda, reminded the world that it 'will always
remain one of the best jokes of democracy, that it gave its deadly
enemies the means by which it was destroyed', democrats have
quickly forgotten just how precarious a political framework it can
be.
Using the collapse of democracy in ancient Athens and the Weimar
Republic, as well as the uncertain fate of democratic rule in the
United States and China today as illustrative examples, Mark Chou
examines the conditions and characteristics of democracy that make
it prone to self-destruct. In drawing out the political lessons
from these past collapses, he explains how a democracy can, simply
by being democratic, sow the seeds of its own destruction.
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