Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy

by Domenico Losurdo

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY'S VELVET GLOVE

The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers' movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. John Stuart Mill, for example, argued that electoral influence should be more pronounced among the educated - and wealthy - than among those working with their hands. Every vote ought not to be counted the same. Countries with deep...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784787310
• ISBN13: 9781784787318
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"