"Liberal" History

.The Folly of Liberal History - Kraut > .

Intro (0:56)
A short political history of medieval Hungary (2:37)
The Hungarian oligarchy ​(3:34)
The Decline of Oligarchy (06:00)
What is whig history (07:33)
The rise and fall of Venice (11:38)
Warnings of Oligarchy (16:11)
The birth of American Oligarchy (18:05)
The death of American Oligarchy (23:34)
A warning from History? (25:33)
Outro (27:16)

A recently reemerging idea in the English speaking political landscape is that history is the story of an almost natural progression of humanity into liberty culminating within English and American democracy. This is nonsense. And it also has a name: "whig history" 

Whig history is "bunk". The economic liberties that are so often praised by advocates of whig history, can very often result in the creation of oligarchies that then proceed to undermine and destroy the very economic liberties that created the oligarchy in the first place.