Democracy; the god that failed

Can a person ignore this work? We may disagree with this book or agree, much or little, but all these considerations do not diminish its value, uniqueness, novelty, authenticity of its analysis, and its striking interpretive strength. This is a provocative and sometimes shocking controversial book, and it also requires a high degree of imagination that allows seeing things from perspectives of a high level of imagination that permits viewing things from new and different viewpoints, perhaps never considered before. The reader will discover that Hans Herman Hoppe — professor of economics and student of the great German thinker Jürgen Habermas before becoming a stubborn libertarian — a controversial theorist, is not lacking in both economic and moral arguments. He begins with convincing premises to end with shocking and unconventional conclusions such as: democracy is a failed, evil, and dangerous idea; democratic transition is confirmed civilizational decline; immigration is an invasion and forced integration; democratic equality is theft because it requires transferring properties from those who own to those who do not; democratic republics in Europe will collapse just as monarchies did, and their collapse is only a matter of time; social security programs and health insurance are forms of theft that will inevitably lead to catastrophic social effects; equality among people is decadence; the natural system is based on recognizing a few nobles and natural elites acknowledged for their courage, intelligence, and superiority, while excluding the vast majority of idlers, vagrants, incapacitated, sick, and intruders living at the expense of the superior masters whom nature has endowed with special talents and privileges... etc. This way of thinking and concluding will remind many of the ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Although the book contains no reference to Nietzsche, his ideas, spirited and aggressive spirit, striking like lightning, take hold of this book from start to finish.