Democracy or Bonapartism: Two Centuries of War on Democracy

HOW AN IRON FIST DONNED DEMOCRACY’S VELVET GLOVE

The history of universal suffrage is best understood as a conflict between liberal elites and democractic workers’ movements, according to Domenico Losurdo. John Stuart Mill, for example, argued that electoral influence should be more pronounced among the educated – and wealthy – than among those working with their hands. Every vote ought not to be counted the same. Countries with deep liberal roots have historically been quick to restrain the...