Critique of Rousseau’s Social Contract, part 18
It just keeps getting worse… This week we’re looking at Book 4, Chs. 5-7. In these chapters, Rousseau introduces three new, weird, dangerous institutions to… “help.”
We’ve got the tribunate, which is a dictatorship waiting to happen, the dictatorship, which is actually a dictatorship, and the censorship, which is supposed to passive-aggressively shame and re-educate groups that get out of line.
As usual, Rousseau introduces nothing that would temper or eliminate the awful incentives such groups observe. It’s really kind of sad.
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Intro quote by Ralph Raico from his book “The Struggle for Liberty”
https://mises.org/library/book/struggle-liberty-libertarian-history-political-thought
Intro music by MFCC, courtesy Pixabay:
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