populism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Aug 25 20:15:34 PDT 2001


Lawrence wrote:
>
> doesn't the left in
> general like the idea of majority rule?

Can you name a single substantial change (for the better or for the worse) in all of human history that was brought about by a majority? I can't.

Majorities are passive followers. Hence they act only in response to demogoguery grounded in the given ideology of a period and place -- i.e., ruling class ideology.

Carrol



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