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The Demon in Democracy

Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies

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The Demon in Democracy

Von: Ryszard Legutko, John O'Sullivan, Teresa Adelson
Gesprochen von: Liam Gerrard
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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.

©2016 Ryszard Legutko (P)2017 Tantor Europa Politik & Regierungen
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This book exposes our subconscious thinking, how liberal democracies have grown to resemble Communist regimes of times past. It is the best critique of our currently held believes and ideologies, many of which we are not even consciously aware of.
Do not read this book, if you are not prepared to have your beliefs of what is obviously right or wrong challenged.

It changed my worldview. It lays bare, the scars and dysfunction of our zeitgeist. It is one of the best books I ever read.

Changed my life

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The author makes a series of debatable statements, provides zero stats that could prove those statements and slowly drowns the listeners with boring repetitive complaints. Those complaints would be interesting to explorenif the author backed those woth some data. With zero data the statements seem superficial at best.

An extremely boring fiction

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