Democracy: The God That Failed - Definition and Overview

Democracy: The God That Failed is a book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, containing a series of thirteen essays on the subject of democracy, and concluding with the belief that democracy is a sign of decivilization sweeping the world since World War I and that it must be delegitimized.

The title of the work is an allusion to The God That Failed, a 1950 work in which six former communist (or former communist sympathizer) authors describe their experience of and disillusion with communism.

Hoppe is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and a self-described libertarian.

Reference

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed. Transaction Publishers, Rutgers, NJ, 2001, ISBN 0765808684.

External links

• World War I as the End of Civilization (http://mm.mises.org/mp3/war/war8a.mp3), a lecture by Hoppe on the same subject.
• "Democracy: The God That Failed" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe4.html), an essay of the same title, also by Hoppe