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The reverse view, which derives the authority of government from the governed, made its appearance within the Middle Ages partly under the affect of classical custom. But its major interest and significance is that it served as a starting-level for the thought of a later time. On the whole topic the reader might consult Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Age, translated by Maitland (Cambridge University Press). We enter on the modern period, accordingly, with society constituted on a completely authoritarian basis, the kingly power supreme and tending in the direction of arbitrary despotism, and under the king the social hierarchy extending from the good territorial lord to the day-labourer.

It’s mentioning the obvious, failing to supply any solutions and side stepping the sins of the Left. She’s fairly direct and particular in criticizing the Right, but the Right isn’t liable for the failing of classical liberalism over the last … Read More

The liberals had been and nonetheless are the ideologists of the bourgeoisie, which may reconcile itself to serfdom but is afraid of revolution, is afraid of the mass movement which might be capable of overthrowing the monarchy and abolishing the rule of the landowners. The consolidation of revolutionary forces within the Zemlia i Volia (Land and Freedom) group and within the Polish Uprising of 1863–64 sharpened the demarcation between liberalism and the revolutionary democrats and contributed to the evolution of Russian liberalism into an unbiased present. The shaping of the ideology of Russian liberalism started in the late 1830’s with disputes between the Westernizers and the Slavophiles over the country’s future improvement. “Accusatory literature,” which criticized officers and specific administrative shortcomings but which did not cope with the foundations of the system of autocracy, acquired considerable affect in liberal journals (Morskoi sbornik, Russkii vestnik, and Otechestvennye zapiski, for example).

Certain … Read More