Strong Fences Make Good Neighbours
People come up with all sorts of ideological reasons to try to explain conflict – “religion” is a favourite (Islam now, Christianity at various periods in the past), or nationalism, inequality, tyrannical government, whatever the bee may be in your particular bonnet. The truth is that these are mere excuses, evasions of the true causes of conflict which are ineradicable human characteristics – fear, or greed, or envy and thus the hatred which those emotions engender. The search for a solution…
The Nature of Democracy
By Max Musson: The democratic process and the principle of ‘one man, one vote’, is one of the foundation stones of liberal democracy and is seen by liberals, Marxists and social democrats as an institutional reaffirmation of their ‘sacred’ principle of human equality. Even so, the implementation and the practice of democracy and the practice of one man, one vote, has throughout history, not been without its problems and without detractors. Critics have pointed to…