"In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed." - Rousseau
Do you know what did he mean by natural order? I think that phrase sounds very much like Hoppe.
no Rousseau meant that we should all be noble savages. you can class him as an anti-capitalist.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
I know he was very egalitarian, nationalist, democratic and disliked private property. But I didn't know what he meant by "natural order". I think you're right, maybe he has refering to nobles.
ivanfoofoo: I know he was very egalitarian, nationalist, democratic and disliked private property. But I didn't know what he meant by "natural order". I think you're right, maybe he has refering to nobles.
Rousseau was truly mad. If one were to read his Discourse on Inequality then you could see that basic interaction somehow produced inequality. He basically proposes that we should lead sealed lives of atomistic natures. How he then produces a social contract theory after that is beyond me.
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael