POL SCI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Corporatism, John Locke, Classical Liberalism
25 Jan 2018
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For the corporatist, freedom is not the absence of restraint; it is the ability to achieve your role in the collectivity. As individualists, we achieve our maximum potential through joining whichever groups you choose, but a corporatist"s view sees only one group for everyone to belong to: punishment. For an individualist is death; corporatist punishment is excluded, or excommunicated from the group. Locke advocated for majority rule, which was very controversial. Second treatise of gov. effectively provides the theory which justifies "the american. Reality is that both parties in american gov. are liberals. Their solution to problems is by letting people do their thing. France and britain, the other two model democracies, have a lot more state intervention for a longer period of time than ever in the united states. How do people behave without society/gov: equality, no subordination or subjection.
