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...statecraft that promises more than it can deliver, all come under Aron's pitiless onslaught. The purpose of such demolition is not to clear the way for a pure and total science of society. Aron sees society as far too complex and changing to allow for any general theory valid for all times and places; he conceives of science as a quest, not a set of laws, and tries to define the different logics of behavior which operate different sectors of reality (economics, International relations, etc....) Aron recognizes that the relations between sectors are the most difficult to account...
...Minh and Hitler, or even between Mao Tse-tung and Hitler. The old-line liberals who argue this way, who talk hard to expiate past errors of softness, are committing the opposite error of rigid adherence to an old standard that has no application here. There are valid reasons for the North Vietnamese to want the reunification promised at the Geneva Conference to take place, and it is obviously in China's interest to back them in this struggle. China may some day turn into the insatiable monster Germany was in the 1930s, but it has not yet, and without...
...world safe for democracy" is nowadays often considered naive. President Kennedy spoke instead of "making the world safe for diversity." Yet the Wilsonian hope-which does not intend to impose democracy on anyone but only to create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient Greeks had some careful notions about democracy, and none better than...
...give enough importance to the behavioral approach, but its offerings are not predominantly "traditional," if one means by this either political philosophy or historical studies. Rather, they are on the side of empirical theory, i.e. the systematic analysis of political data, based on observation and aiming at valid general propositions. Obviously, history must be our raw material and our touchstone; and naturally, the issues raised by political philosophy of ten provide us with the questions our observation tries to answer, or even with the conceps with which we try to organize the results of our empirical research...
...when it is directed against Communists. Laws forbidding mere membership in the Klan will no more serve the cause of freedom than do the Smith Act and the Subversive Activities Control Act. And since such laws are, in the liberal view, unconstitutional, the proposed HUAC investigation can serve no valid legislative purpose...