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100	1		_aLudovici, Anthony M. _q(Anthony Mario), _d1882-1971
245	1	4	_aThe false assumptions of "democracy"
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-11
508			_aSean/IB@DP
520			_a"The false assumptions of "democracy" by Anthony M. Ludovici is a political treatise written in the early 20th century. It argues that modern democratic ideals rest on muddled language and seductive slogans, and urges a rigorous redefinition of key political terms. The work challenges egalitarianism and socialism, defends private property as a life-affirming principle, and seeks to disentangle justice, freedom, and equality from popular misconceptions. The opening of the treatise frames its project with a supportive letter and a preface that, in the shadow of the Great War, calls for a sober “stock-taking” of ideals and a reclarification of language to avert social breakdown. The introduction claims that the loss of a common culture has emptied abstract words—freedom, justice, equality—of meaning, turning them into emotional “missiles,” with journalism and propaganda accelerating the decay; Rousseau’s misuse of “Nature,” “Freedom,” and “Man” is cited as a model of how such confusion births revolution. The first chapter defends private property as the biological and moral expression of growth and self-extension, criticizes abolitionist schemes as symptoms of cultural exhaustion, concedes real abuses (misallocated power, degrading labor, unhealthy poverty, unearned advantages), and proposes changing social valuations so wealth does not automatically equal power. Subsequent early chapters argue that “immanent justice” is a myth because nature is amoral and justice is purely social, and that equality (including “equality of opportunity”) is incoherent beyond mathematics—leaving only equal protection of interests under law as a sensible aim. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Heath Cranton, Ltd., 1921
653			_aDemocracy
653			_aSocial problems
653			_aGreat Britain -- Social conditions
700	1		_aWilloughby de Broke, Richard Greville Verney, baron, _d1869-1923
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/falseassumptions00ludo/page/n3/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76859
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