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I'm looking for books that critique democracy.

Whether it's a left or right wing critique doesn't matter.

Any recommendations?

>> No.7015800

>>7015797
The Republic by Plato

>> No.7015804

Aristotle's Politics

>> No.7015807

Inb4 Mein Kampf

>> No.7015808

check out the republic by Plato OP.

I think it would be right up your alley.

>> No.7015816

>>7015800
>>7015808
Thanks guys.

>> No.7015880

No one?

>> No.7015896

The Leviathan

>> No.7016009

>>7015797
hobbes
nietzsche
nick land

>> No.7016016

Democracy in America by Alexis deTocqueville.

>> No.7016034

>>7015797
The passages on Democracy in the Republic are pretty good.

Nietzsche has a pretty sustained attack on democracy in Beyond Good & Evil.

De Tocqueville's Democracy in America also features a bunch of very interesting critiques of at least American democracy, a number of which are similar to Nietzsche's.

>> No.7016040

Democracy: The God that Failed

>> No.7016052

Mein Kampf

>> No.7016077

Start with the fucking Greeks.

>> No.7016183

>>7015797

Joseph de Maistre's works are full of critiques of Democracy. Also see Carl Schmitt- The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, for a piercing account of the irreconcilability between democracy and parliamentarian process.

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7016224

>>7015797
This anon hit the highlights.
>>7016034

Up, Simba by David Foster Wallace is one of the most important political essays of 21s century and deals with the subtle failure of democracy in America.

Any reading you can do on failures of democracy in the third world, particularly where the US planted it, will be useful.