Could you recommend some philosophers who defended authoritarianism/totalitarianism? I am interested because democracy is today taken as "natural" and God-given. I just want to check the other side of the coin. I would really like to know more about it and its philosophical basis. Any period is acceptable, ancient to modern.
Carl Schmitt
>>394554
What should I read?
>>394530
Oh, and I already read Leviathan.
>>394559
r/cringe
Your best best is to look for political philosophers who rejects democracy.
Plato's "Republic" rejects democracy in favour of an ideal way to run a country, where the kids are taken away from their parents and philosopher-kings rule.
Utilitarian thought (the greater good is what counts and nothing else) arguably rejects democracy, it without a doubt rejects democracy as anything else but a tool to achieve the greater good.
Communist thoughts are by virtue (if you want to read them as philosophical arguments instead of a theory of social progression) anti-democratic.
B.F.Skinner, a behavioural psychology, wrote a book called "Walden 2" based on the theory that human don't have a free will and can be conditioned to enjoy whatever best suit them, thus rendering democracy useless.
I can't think of any academic contemporary book that outright rejects democracy.
>>394581
Whatever you say.
>>394582
Thanks.
Oswald Spengler
Julius Evola is you're real old school
>>394530
>I am interested because democracy is today taken as "natural" and God-given.
topkek, no it isn't wtf
>>394957
Well it sort of is in the US. Whether or not democracy is the best form of government isn't even a question for most people.
>>394980
>America
>Democracy
>>395005
Representative democracy is still democracy. Those represented are just big businesses.
Julius Evola
