Democracy Under Siege by Frank Furedi

Author:Frank Furedi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2020-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

By the mid-1930s, democracy itself was held responsible for unleashing the destructive and irrational powers sweeping the world. In his 1933 essay ‘The Democratization of Culture’, the sociologist Karl Mannheim asserted that it was democracy that created the terrain for the flourishing of totalitarian movements:

Dictatorships can arise only in democracies; they are made possible by the greater fluidity introduced into political life by democracy. Dictatorship is not the antithesis of democracy; it represents one of the possible ways in which a democratic society may try to solve its problems14.

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