The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direct democracy, while simultaneously casting every other form of government as illegitimate and tantamount to slavery. Often hailed as a revolutionary document which sparked the French Revolution, The Social Contract serves both to inculcate dissatisfaction with actually-existing governments and to allow its readers to envision and desire a radically different form of political and social organization. (Summary by Eric Jonas) (4 hr 46 min)
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An intriguing argument and a decent recording





NSA
I found Rousseau's argument quite compelling. I also found most readers familiar with the presentation style typical of this kind of work.
Amazing readers





random reader
The readers were very easy to understand.





Smoke
Thick accent of the reader makes this difficult to follow
Fundamentally flawed





Dr. Ray Cyst
Government is not here to support the people. Government needs to oppress its constituents to ensure they are always thinking inclusive, gender affirming thoughts. How can marginalized people have a place in society unless we have an all powerful predatory Government that punishes people for being insufficiently inclusive. Government exists to gain more power by pretending to protect the underprivileged minorities. A government by the people and for the people is an anathema to all do good nick rich billionair oligarchs who make their fortunes providing subsided housing and phones to disenfranchised poor folks





Matthew ferrari
very informative, look at the political situation and signaling in the media today and most of the negative affects written of a declining state are manifest





Second reader unlistenable. Switched to a YouTube video.