The Arguments Around Democracy: The Differences And The Agreements Between Earlier Authors: Empowering The Individual

This book presents the complexity and depth which underlies all of de Benoist's work and which is often neglected by those who seek to dismiss him by oversimplifying or distorting his arguments.

The author shows how democracy is, contrary to what some critics have claimed, something which has been a part of our civilization from the beginning. The problem, he says, is not the notion of democracy in itself, but rather the current understanding of the term which, rather than empowering the individual, reduces him to little more than a cog in a machine over which he has no control, and in which the direction is set by politicians with little genuine accountability.