Opinions of Curtis Yarvin on various systems of government
The following are some opinions of Curtis Yarvin on various systems of government.
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Systems
Totalitarianism
Gray quotes Yarvin as saying, with regard to his proposed neocameralism, "a totalitarian dictator has little in common with a neocameralist CEO".[1]
Nazism
Dylan Matthews quotes Yarvin: "Universalist lawful democracy is the least demotist of demotisms, Demotism Lite if you will. Compared to . . . Nazism, there's much to be said for it. But this is a rather low bar."[2]
Fascism
According to Lecher, Yarvin's work has "been criticized as veiled fascism."[3]
Communism
Dylan Matthews quotes Yarvin: "Universalist lawful democracy is the least demotist of demotisms, Demotism Lite if you will. Compared to Communism . . . there's much to be said for it. But this is a rather low bar."[2]
Authoritarianism
Rosie Gray writes that according to neoreaction.net -- a site that Social Matter editor Hadley Bishop told her sums up their views -- "Neoreaction is a political worldview and intellectual movement based largely on the ideas of Mencius Moldbug." Gray writes, "The worldview espouses an explicitly authoritarian idea, a rejection of the post-Enlightenment vision of a world that is continually improving as it becomes more democratic."[1]
Monarchism
According to Colin Lecher, Yarvin's work is sometimes branded as neo-monarchism.[3]
Gray notes, "Moldbug even envisioned a kind of CEO at the top: 'The personality cult of dictatorship is quite misleading - a totalitarian dictator has little in common with . . . even a cameralist monarch.'"[1]
Neocameralism
According to Gray, Moldbug in his writings defined "his 'neo-cameralist' philosophy based on Frederick the Great of Prussia's 'cameralist' administrative model."[1]
Matthews writes, "But while mainstream libertarians are outspoken about democracy's deficiencies, they rarely propose an alternative. The neoreactionaries do: monarchy. Well, not monarchy specifically, but some kind of nondemocratic system with rule-driven succession. Moldbug likes to use the term 'formalism,' or 'neocameralism,' a reference to 'cameralism,' the philosophy of government embraced by Frederick the Great of Prussia. Moldbug's vision is corporatist, where instead of a nation belonging to a royal family, it belongs to corporation with shareholders to whom it is accountable. 'To a neocameralist, a state is a business which owns a country,' he writes."[2]
