Elie Halevy by K. Steven Vincent

Author:K. Steven Vincent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

His view of the growth of the administrative and statist dimension of socialism would be strengthened by the end of the war as Halévy assessed the effect of the governmental changes introduced in all of the belligerent nations. He lamented that the war had increased the power of states over smaller associations and groups, and he worried that liberties would suffer. He expressed this clearly in 1918 in a letter to his English friend Graham Wallas, in which he responded to Wallas’s longing for “organization”: “What you and I yearn for after peace, is it really organization—whether theocratic or scientific matters little—that we yearn for, and not rather individualism, anarchism, or whatever you choose to call it? I mean the freedom to do what you like, read what you like, admire what you like, go travelling where you like. Organization indeed! We have that, since the war began, with a vengeance.”19

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