The End of Democracy
a dialogue between Tocqueville and MarxBy Gilberto Lopes
Length4h 16m
About this audiobook
Gilberto Lopes, with this profound and provocative study based on an ingenious imaginary dialogue between Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) and Karl Marx (1818-1883) on democracy, presents us with a disturbing work on one of the most important debates in today's political world.
This work arises from a practical concern, from a life experience and a political restlessness, but also from a theoretical curiosity to make a journey inspired by the work of these two great thinkers who approached the history of their time with particular acuity and erudition.
The relevance of the approaches presented here is evident as we face, day by day, the challenges that the "democracy" of today's world must confront: growing inequality, greater concentration of wealth, absurd wars and ever deeper and more widespread environmental deterioration.
Faced with the state of political and economic confusion that reigns everywhere, Gilberto Lopes proposes, in a renewed and necessary debate on democracy and socialism, to glimpse the signs of progress on the road to equality suggested by Tocqueville as the great engine of history.
This book aims to help us successfully reach the end of that road.
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GenrePolitics and Government
Length4 hrs 16 mins
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Publish dateDec 13, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1I THE END OF DEMOCRACY: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TOCQUEVILLE AND MARX
21. Introduction
3a. Political crisis
4b. Crisis of theory
52. The democratic coven
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63. The limits of democracy
74. Democracy as a political regime of capitalism
85. Possibilities and limitations of the concept of democracy
9a. Democracy and dictatorship
10b. Majorities and minorities
11c. The road to inequality
12d. The concept of democracy over time
136. By way of closing
14II THE DILEMMA OF A GENERATION
151. Freedom and equality during the Cold War: a. Freedom and equality
162. Socialism as a result of military occupation
173. The Struggle for Democracy in the Cold War Context
184. The return to democratic institutions
195. The “end of History”: the road to equality
20III THE ORIGINS OF DEMOCRACY
211. A thinker of the democratic transition: a. America vs. Europe: equality of conditions
222. Democracy as a historical phenomenon
23a. Equality of conditions
24b. Equality in America
25c. Political consequences of the American social state
263. The end of democracy
274. The loss of direction: a. The historical character of democracy
28IV DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM
291. The challenges of equality
30a. Political equality: the role of universal suffrage
31b. Economic disparity
322. Socialism revisited
33a. Forms of property
34b. Social classes
35c. Debate on democracy
36d. The dialogue between Tocqueville and Marx
373. Socialism today: a. An indigenous political process
384. Capitalism without end (critique of Max Weber)
395. The Failure of Capitalism
40V LIBERALISM AND DEMOCRACY: A BRIEF THEORETICAL REVIEW
411. Liberalism
42a. Freedom vs. equality
43b. Freedom in liberalism
44c. Liberalism and capitalism
452. The freedom of the Ancients and the Moderns in Touraine’s work: a. The Ancients and the Moderns
463. Sartori and the theory of democracy: a. Let us try another way
474. Bobbio: Liberalism and Democracy
48a. Freedom and equality
49b. A social pact?
50c. Bobbio and Tocqueville
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