POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Democracy, Liberal Democracy, Bourgeoisie
17 Dec 2012
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It"s a liberal democratic world, institutional ethos is the same. Roman catholic church is identical, in the way the surface is performed. The long 19th century is peak of liberalism"s appeal, countries that were non- liberal, wanted to be liberal. Hungarian"s, in the beginning, pretending to be liberal democrats. Liberal institutions develop even where social basis is not obviously present. Evolutionary socialism and reconciliation with liberal democracy: electoral socialism. Most socialist in the west have embraced liberal democracy. Capitalism could change by evolution, it could change slowly as it doesn"t need a revolution. Russia doesn"t have a constitution, czar nicholas ii has control power, secret police, gets rid of opposition. Lenin of russia, evolutionary socialism can"t work in russia, we don"t have a parliament. Lenin: revolutionary movement under conditions of authoritarianism- russia. Left on own, there is no revolution, there needs to be leadership.
