...sically valuable--are monistic and potentially totalitarian. Only the third is consistent with pluralism and democracy --with Gesellschaft, the "watery fidelity" of civil association, which i...
... equality, solidarity, justice--were each embedded in totalistic utopias: anarchism, libertarianism, radical democracy , Marxism. Sober reflection on the history of the past century and a half should d...
...il society," much more than "state," "government," "power," or even "democracy ," is a term of art in political theory. There is no discovering what the con...
...ife." Communitarians think about a dilemma articulated by Tocqueville in his classic work, Democracy in America. Tocqueville worried that even as the reality of American democracy fr...
...hose Keeper?, Social Science and Moral Obligation ( Berkeley, 1989), which explores the real world of social democracy , especially in Scandinavia. Finally, the third assault is at the hands of what I ...
...to problems of collective life. An important aspect of Dewey's thought is the connection he drew between democracy and community. He had a conception of communal democracy --which is not his term b...
...achieved without suppressing the "liberal walls" ( Walzer) of separation between market, political democracy , religious liberty, the freedom of opinion, and the right to choose a personal or...
...y emerges and develops as long as communitarian and democratic participation is possible. The market is only democracy -prone as long as economic and political liberalism are based on the same historic...
...ess is still responding to global competition by shrinking, and cutting wages. Still, the idea of workplace democracy is spreading. And politically, the idea has enormous potential. It brings a democ...
...ches to shape a more social and democratic society in Central and Eastern Europe should be defined as social democracy is questionable. Certainly, the label "socialism" will not be accepted ...
... way here. We have had what Michael Harrington used to call 20 years ago a kind of invisible social democracy centered largely in the Democratic Party, but it has been always a social democra...
...rds sometime define their aspirations as autonomy (within Iraq or Turkey), sometimes as independence; social democracy is not their priority. Shall we tell them that Westerners will support them...
... an economically viable Slovakia and Serbia, as it was not between the wars--but it is actually dangerous to democracy . It is dangerous to culture. It is dangerous to freedom because the small nations...
...vior is not predictable on the basis of class, family background, or gender. They do not do what theories of democracy suggest they ought to do to make democracy work. (And yet, contrary to another se...
Other than the time between the two World Wars, democracy has been a remarkable success after World War II. From 1918 through 1939, after the progression of democratic tendencies in the beginning of t
...al of the possibility of national citizenship and solidarity. Its adherence to our traditions of grass roots democracy is curiously helpless before the national and international reach of capital. The...
...sting socialism" has thrown over the very idea of socialism, it requires a new formulation. Even social democracy is presently suffering from the impact of the events in the East and the proclaim...
...the same. The collapse of communism is not a victory for capitalism, but the sign of the failings of Social Democracy . Democracy cannot be restricted to political institutions, but must spread throug...
...ogical, and military threats that the enemy was supposed to embody have faded within a short period of time. Democracy has become the only legitimate principle of political organization accepted almos...
