In Defense of Liberal Democracy by Manuel Hinds

Author:Manuel Hinds [Hinds, Manuel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Published: 2021-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

The destructiveness unleashed by the war and its sequels can be traced to the maladaptation to the transformations triggered by the industrial revolution, domestically and internationally. Rather than looking at free trade among equals, countries aimed at subjecting other countries to both political and commercial domination, which opened the door to the destructive regimes of the twentieth century.

When the crown of the tsars rolled in the streets of Moscow at the end of the war, it was picked up not by democrats but by communists, who then led Russia to almost a century of suffering. Mired in chaos, Italy’s government asked Mussolini to form a government in 1922. After its autocratic kaiser fell, Germany had a Bolshevik revolution in 1918 and 1919, stabilized for a while, and then fell into a Nazi dictatorship in 1933. Destructive regimes took over country after country in the 1920s and 1930s.

During the industrial revolution, resistance to change led to rigidity, which led to the collapse of obsolete institutions that refused to change, which led to chaos, then led to the emergence of destructive leaders from obscure corners, then led finally to totalitarian regimes. The collapse itself, at the end of the war, was the result of imperialism, a symptom of maladaptation—the search for solutions to internal problems through the domination of other countries.

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