Agustín Menendez, professor of comparative public law and political philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, compared Mario Draghi to Thomas Hobbes, inventor of The Leviathan, to justify continuation of monarchic power.
As we have reported, former investment banker, central banker, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, has proposed to invest €750-800 billion/year in the energy and defense sector in the EU, to be financed by EU common debt emissions. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she will adopt Draghi’s plan, but either she should have said this before the elections, or Draghi himself should have run in the elections as a candidate with that program, Menendez says.
“This is not the first time that Draghi has succeeded in making the same move that Thomas Hobbes successfully did. The author of The Leviathan managed to find new arguments, in a contractualist way, to justify something old, namely the power of the king, in the midst of new events, the English civil wars. Man, Hobbes tried to convince us, became free to submit to Leviathan; by not doing so, he would pay the consequences. Draghi is no match for Hobbes, but the move is similar, and wars we are fighting some, it seems to me.
