The Challenge To Democracy 12+

🔖 THE CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY by C DELISLE BURNS By the same Author THE HORIZON OF EXPERIENCE LEISURE IN THE MODERN WORLD MODERN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL DEMOCRACY: ITS DEFECTS AND ADVANTAGES GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY INDUSTRY AND CIVILIZATION PRINCIPLES OF REVOLUTION INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES THE PHILOSOPHY OF LABOUR A SHORT HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL INTERCOURSE PREFACE THE challenge to democracy is most clearly expressed in the support given to dictatorship. But there is a deeper challenge in the situation out of which dictator ship has arisen. Dictatorship may be objectionable but arguments against it should not hide the difficulties with which the democratic tradition itself is faced for dictatorship is only an effort to meet the needs of the present situation by resorting to primitive methods of organizing the desire for a life in common. And even if we reject dictatorship, we shall still have to face the fact that poverty and war and other evils exist. What is to be done about such evils? It is clear at least that we cannot safely wait for the clouds to roll by, in any country. The challenge which is felt in the pressure of evils is, from another point of view, an effort of new forces to seek an outlet among institutions which have been inherited from a very different past. The desire for social change is due mainly to the dissolution of traditional customs and the consequent feeling of isolation or helplessness, especially amon the young. If men and women feel that th...