Big Caesars and Little Caesars
Big Caesars and Little Caesars Who said that dictatorship was dead? Caesarism is alive and well. The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating…
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
Who said that dictatorship was dead? Caesarism is alive and well. The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators.
Ferdinand Mount opens up a fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seize power and why they fall.There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators from Fukuyama back to Macaulay, Mill and Marx, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.In reality, every democracy, however sophisticated or stable it may look, has been attacked or actually destroyed by a would-be Caesar, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Yet in modern times it's become a strangely neglected subject. Marx was wrong.
This Caesarism is not an absurd throwback, it is an ever-present danger.There are Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little