Not only is this close correlation between democracy and dictatorship troublesome for democratic-peace theorists; worse, they must come to grips with… - Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Not only is this close correlation between democracy and dictatorship troublesome for democratic-peace theorists; worse, they must come to grips with the fact that the dictatorships emerging from crises of democracy are by no means always worse, from a classical liberal or libertarian view, than what would have resulted otherwise. Cases can be easily cited where dictatorships were preferable and an improvement. Think of Italy and Mussolini or Spain and Franco.

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About Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949) was an Austrian school economist, an anarcho-capitalist philosopher, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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