Reflections on Democracy and Violence

by Iftekhar | August 3, 2007 at 12:03 pm

242 views | 0 Recommendations | 0 comments

The irrational individual enjoys complete liberty in a democracy to play out his irrationality; in the Palace polity, a culture of subordination as well as a bureaucratic hierarchy and notions of kingship work to restrain his impulses. It is argued here that the Holocaust, for instance, was conceived of largely by civil society, thereby mimicking an earlier evil, the Atlantic Slave Trade.

The second section of this article establishes a correlation, witnessed by evidence and the testimony of S. E. Finer and Stanley J. Tambiah, between democracy and violence, a correlation that is strengthened in the third section by John Keane and Robin Blackburn's observation that civil society tends towards violence; but correlation is not causation, and section three is dedicated to establishing a causal link between the Forum-type polity and violence.

0 See all footage | View Slideshow

Share: email story | add to any | | facebook | stumbleupon