Word: carres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mass democracy is also a state of affairs in which "propertyless non-taxpaying wage earners" (who probably now hold the balance of power in most elections) have become a unique class "whose relation to the state is primarily that of beneficiaries." Dryly Author Carr adds that as yet mass democracy is still on trial...
...rigidly realistic as Spykman's, Conditions of Peace is the work of a new type of political mind -the Leninist of the Right-the conservative who has fortified his position in a revolutionary world by mastering the theory and tactics of the revolution. Since 1941 Edward Hallett Carr has been one of the chief editorial writers of the London Times. He brings to the task of planning a decent, lasting peace the practical experience of 20 years in the thick of British diplomacy and statecraft...
...Carr clearly saw the social revolution coming and believes that World War II is part of it. But his quiet, lucid revolutionary outlook upon the world of today is not hooked up with Communism. Indeed, British pinks sniff at Carr of the Times as a "self-appointed critic of Marxism...
...Carr's purpose in writing Conditions of Peace is to help public opinion in the U.S. and Britain to understand the revolution which we face "whether we like it or not." Says he: "The defense of democracy, like other negative aims, is dead and barren. The challenge of the revolution can only be met by redefining and reinterpreting democracy in a new and revolutionary sense...
What's Wrong with Demos? Diagnosis is often half the cure, and some of Editor Carr's most brilliant chapters are strictly diagnostic. He believes that erstwhile "liberal democracy" (the kind in which most U.S. and British citizens imagine they still live) is being replaced by "mass democracy." Mass democracy is distinguished by overwhelming popularity and prestige of the chief executive (Roosevelt, Churchill); by the growing weakness of Congress or Parliament; by a tendency of the executive and the masses to interact directly via radio and straw polls over the heads of electoral bodies...