Simón Bolívar · Politics
Bolívar’s final disillusion - the 1830 verdict that America was ungovernable and that to serve a revolution was to plough the sea - and the deepest paradox of his career: the liberator who assumed a dictatorship, and warned that liberty without a people prepared to sustain it collapses into chaos.
You learned that in his final year Bolívar wrote that America was ‘ungovernable,’ that ‘he who serves a revolution ploughs the sea,’ and foresaw descent into mob rule and petty tyranny; and that the arch-liberator had himself assumed dictatorship in 1828, embodying the paradox of liberty won by…
Leads to Thomas Hobbes.
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