The Totalitarian Temptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Totalitarian Temptation write by Jean-François Revel. This book was released on 1978. The Totalitarian Temptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New Totalitarian Temptation
The New Totalitarian Temptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Totalitarian Temptation write by Todd Huizinga. This book was released on 2016-02-16. The New Totalitarian Temptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What caused the eurozone debacle and the chaos in Greece? Why has Europe’s migrant crisis spun out of control, over the heads of national governments? Why is Great Britain calling a vote on whether to leave the European Union? Why are established political parties declining across the continent while protest parties rise? All this is part of the whirlwind that EU elites are reaping from their efforts to create a unified Europe without meaningful accountability to average voters. The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe is a must-read if you want to understand how the European Union got to this point and what the European project fundamentally is. This is the first book to identify the essence of the EU in a utopian vision of a supranationally governed world, an aspiration to achieve universal peace through a global legal order. The ambitions of the global governancers are unlimited. They seek to transform not just the world’s political order, but the social order as well—discarding basic truths about human nature and the social importance of tradition in favor of a human rights policy defined by radical autonomy and unfettered individual choice. And the global governance ideology at the heart of the EU is inherently antidemocratic. EU true believers are not swayed by the common sense of voters, nor by reality itself. Because the global governancers aim to transfer core powers of all nations to supranational organizations, the EU is on a collision course with the United States. But the utopian ideas of global governance are taking root here too, even as the European project flames into rancor and turmoil. America and Europe are still cultural cousins; we stand or fall together. The EU can yet be reformed, and a commitment to democratic sovereignty can be renewed on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Totalitarian Temptation
The Totalitarian Temptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Totalitarian Temptation write by . This book was released on . The Totalitarian Temptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Africa's Totalitarian Temptation
Africa's Totalitarian Temptation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Totalitarian Temptation write by Dave Peterson. This book was released on 2020. Africa's Totalitarian Temptation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Disappointment with the ability of democracy to deliver economic rewards in much of Africa - and with the persistence of instability, corruption, and poor governance in democratic regimes - has undermined democracy's appeal for many on the continent. At the same time, many external actors are expressing sympathy for regimes that have demonstrated an ability to impose stability and deliver economic growth, despite the limits placed on their citizens' freedom. In this context, Dave Peterson asks: Is totalitarianism emerging as an acceptable alternative to democracy in Africa? And if so, with what consequences? Peterson draws on extensive research in countries across the continent to thoroughly explore the dilemma of the totalitarian temptation.
The Demon in Democracy
The Demon in Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Demon in Democracy write by Ryszard Legutko. This book was released on 2018-06-26. The Demon in Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
