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MARXISM AND THE MANIPULATION OF MAN
I Addition^ (ottunenti by Mises ditnng the ^uestion-and-ansurr period. I
Mjjorioet are alio noc godlike. "The people t vt>ice is God $" is an old
C'crman maxim, but it t% noc cnie. The baus o( the idea of ulking about
plcafttng the majont>' u that in the long run the majonrv- uill not tolerate
rule by a minorit>'; if the major it>- are not pleavd there y\i\\ be a violent
irvolunon to change the gmrmtnent. The ty«em of representativr
gi'V'emment li not radical; it i* pircttcly a wiy to nuke a change of
grA-ernmenc po«%ible without violence: man>' think that. \%nih the approval
Ot the people, they can change the govrrnment at the next election.
M-ijoriry rule t% tun a good %Y«iem but it i% a tyuem that awurcs peaceful
cotiditiom vkithin the country Ne^^-^apert. periodicaK. books, and so on.
atr the opinion -nuker^
The grrai p mgivH of the modern age is that it led to representative
gtnrrnmcni The great pioneer of this idea s%as the British philosopher
David Hume (171 1- 1776).*^ who pointed out that in the long run
ginrrnment is not. as pe«>ple beliesrd, based on nulitar>' possrr. but on
opinion, on the opinion cH the nujmtty What is needed is to convince the
nujority It n not because the majoritx* is alwa>-s right l>n the contrar>'. I
u < >uld u>' the nujoriry is srr>' ttfien wrong Hut if >t>u do not want to
rrv»>ri to a snc^ent ovrrthnm- of the gusirrnnsent. hh\ this is impossible if
u are the miiH»rit>' because if s^hj *tv the mim>ntv the\- will tnrnhnm-
II. you hasT only twe method—to talk to the pet*plc. to write, and to
ijlk again.
6 (D«vtd Hume. "XN* die Twn Prmnplri of Cknrfnmcni." C luptcr 4. in Eugene F Mdler.
ed. Ea^fK .U*«d. Mbfk^. md Utttrnf. (InduiupoJn Lihem Fund. I W7)—Ed )