Monarchist Manifesto

We must not forget that political ochlocracy has no scientific basis

and that its defenders in the past one hundred years came forward with

far more sentimental reasons than the most enthusiastic adherents of

Monarchy. Berdyaev in his Christianity and Class-War emphasizes

this point very strongly. There are many superstitions which we find

expressed or implied in connection with the rhapsodies of unthinking

exponents of democratism, while some of these tenets are not seldom

more seriously espoused by saner minds. For argument's sake we might

enumerate just a few of these superstitious concepts:

1. All human beings are equal.

2. One human being can err, the majority of a group never.

3. Everybody is able to judge every political question.

4. The representatives in the Parliament are necessarily the best heads.

5. All intelligent and honest men are popular.

6. The functional value of the ignorant and the learned are the same.

7. Both sexes have the same abilities and functions.

8. Masses have an unerring instinct.

9. Majorities have an inate sense of justice.

10. No human being is indispensable.

11. Majorities are the better part of the whole.

12. Truth can stand by itself. The lie never prevails.

13. More progress means more happiness.

14. A majority suppressing a minority is a lesser evil than a minority

dominating a majority.*

15. More ochlocracy means more liberty.

16. The masses value liberty more than everything else.

17. Liberty, progress, "democracy," peace, and social justice are thoroughly

interconnected.