Liberty or Equality
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Liberty or Equality
| Full title | Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time |
|---|---|
| Author | Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn |
| Published | 1952 |
| Pages | 395 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s argument that liberty and equality are rivals, not partners, and that modern mass democracy chose the second at the cost of the first — tending toward conformity, majority tyranny and eventually totalitarian rule, with the old monarchies protecting minorities better than the regimes that replaced them. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Liberalism, Democracy, and Pluralism, where it is the section’s sharpest case against majority rule. Shared March 2026; full transcription on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
Kuehnelt-Leddihn was a Catholic Austrian aristocrat, and his most provocative claim is that National Socialism was a democratic and egalitarian phenomenon rather than a reactionary one.
Connections
- Democracy — the institution the book argues against.
- Liberalism — the tradition it argues democracy consumed.
- Christianity — the Catholic commitment from which the argument is made.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.