Slavery in Service of Rights

Part 2 of Critiquing Rousseau’s Social Contract

In chapters 5 and 6 of Book 1, Rousseau gives us his definition of the Social Contract.

It is a definition so fraught with self-contradictions and deliberately fuzzy thinking that it is frankly insane.

Show notes here.

On the plus side, Rousseau does make some useful distinctions and even gives us a few handy definitions, but they’re tiny islands of sanity in the vast goopy illogical mess that is his Social Contract.

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Hayek’s Ch. 10 from The Road to Serfdom:
https://fee.org/resources/the-road-to-serfdom-chapter-10-why-the-worst-get-on-top/

Polleit on the Iron Law of Oligarchy:
https://mises.org/online-book/global-currency-plot/15-illusion-democracy-iron-law-oligarchy

Intro quote from here:
https://mises.org/journal-libertarian-studies/social-contract-critique

Intro music by Egor Gandukhin, courtesy Pixabay:
https://pixabay.com/users/sounddelicious-44481665/

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