Dictatorship (Carl Schmitt)

A timely work from 1921, analyzing in detail the history and jurisprudential basis of, and for, dictatorship in the context of modern Western societies.

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https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/10/02/dictatorship-from-the-origin-of-the-modern-concept-of-sovereignty-to-proletarian-class-struggle-carl-schmitt/

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"Dictatorship, in the form of Caesarism, is in the American air. I have recently written on what, in practical terms, an American Caesar would do; I will soon tell you how likely our Caesar is, and why. As it happens, I am at the same time working my way through all the books of Carl Schmitt, in their order of original publication, and his next book up, 'Dictatorship,' published in 1921, clarifies the historical and legal-analytical part of what is unspooling before our eyes. We cannot be better informed, analytically at least, than by pondering this work of the peerless German, whose book, as always, puts to shame today’s mostly insipid political and constitutional analysis." . . . .