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“There are only four or five who maintain the dictator… not the six thousand but a hundred thousand, and even millions, cling to the tyrant by this cord to which they are tied.”
Tyranny is not imposed; it is invited. La Boétie maps how power metastasizes through favors, flattery, and fear—how millions bend the knee so a few can rise. A cold, lucid anatomy of submission, and a quiet, devastating call to end it.
Price: $8.00
Pages: 20
Publisher: ERIS
Imprint: ERIS
Series: ERIS gems
Publication Date:
18 November 2025
Trim Size: 7.70 X 4.30 in
ISBN: 9781967751112
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) was a French magistrate, political theorist, and close friend of Michel de Montaigne. Best known for The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, written when he was just eighteen, La Boétie posed a radical question that still echoes today: why do people submit to power that exploits them? Though he died young, his work quietly seeded the modern tradition of civil disobedience.