Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future Ibrahim Azeem
Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future Ibrahim Azeem Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. Yet,…
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Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future Ibrahim Azeem
Liberal democracy has produced the most freedom and security for the most people of any form of government in human history. Yet, today, we face an anti-liberal backlash--and we bear much of the responsibility.Western leaders learnt the wrong lesson from the Soviets' downfall, seeing it as an ideological victory and adopting a 'total liberalism' with the same rigidity that had just brought down communism. For a while, and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we believed that this would be enough.
Cue disaffected masses, opportunistic populists, canny Russian sabotage, and the Chinese model as a powerful alternative--where do we go from here?From Tsarist conspiracy theories and Italian corruption to Now, the economic and foreign policy failures of neoliberalism have fatally undermined the public's faith in the associated political system, liberal democracy.