Liberal Democracy as Soft Despotism

INTERVIEW

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018

DEMOCRACY

VOL. 2, NO. 1, PGS. 1–8

A conversation with Ryszard Legutko

This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.

Ryszard Legutko is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, a member of the European Parliament and a former Minister of National Education of Poland. He is the author of The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.

What is liberal democracy? What is communism? What are their promises?

Liberal democracy consists of two elements —liberalism and democracy. The word liberalism derives from liberty, the word democracy means, as everybody knows, the rule of the people. Let us take those two words separately.

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Pepito

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"debido a fuertes prejuicios anticristianos, los cristianos en Europa están cada vez más marginados"

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Esta frase invalida todo el artículo y a su autor.

manfred.nitsch@t-online.de

04/01/2018

Lastima que el fascismo de Francisco Franco y Salazar, ni hablar de Mussolini y Hitler ni del clerical-fascismo autriaco no figura entre los despotismos. El anti-liberalismo en Polonia y Hungria me parece que se alimenta de la vieja doctrina social catolica con el "caudillo por la gracia de Dios", el "stato corporativo" y las leyes y derechos "divinos" (incluyendo la homofobia) en contra de los derechos humanos. El Papa argentino es ignorado, viva el Papa polones. Que lástima!