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...systems must rely upon the consent of the governed, however deviously obtained, as at present in Germany, Russia, and Italy," Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago stated last night before about 200 students in the second of series of six Godkin lectures given in Littauer Center...
...Merriam made a long attack on those political theorists who too closely associate methods of government and systems of economy. "Perhaps nothing in modern life has wrought more destruction than this assumption of the determining quality of factors vaguely called economic," he said...
Some of the tragedies resulting from the confusion of capitalism and democracy, according to Merriam, were that French industrialists, anxious to protect their privileges, preferred Hitlerism to Communism; and "British Tories" wanted to appease Hitler in order save capitalist profits...
Besides his university work and his services to the national government, Professor Merriam has entered politics in Chicago, serving as city alderman for six years, running as candidate for mayor, and serving as chairman of the Commission on City Expenditures...
Among Professor Merriam's many publications in political science are "The New Democracy and the New Despotism", 1939; "Political Power," 1934; "The American Party System," 1922; "American Political Ideas," 1921; and "History of American Political Theories...