HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Maynard Keynes, Nikita Khrushchev, John Dewey
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Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the rest (winston churchill, nov. Liberalism looked nearly dead in early 20th century, many believed it could not survive. Not all liberal in the same way, conservative, liberal, libertarian, etc. Liberalism challenged: world war 1 and the war machine the mobilization and effectiveness in productivity and manufacturing led many to believe these things, planning boards, labour laws, government ownership of corps. Also great depression, challenged invisible hand, created great need to solutions and regulation and gov. intervention: the ideological challenge of communism and fascism. Self-interested liberal style of politics coming under attack. Liberal political rights had gone too far, too much chaos, communism/socialism provided people with meaning rather than challenging them to act as individuals. Much came into question: the cold war. In the aftermath of ww2, western liberalism was challenged geopolitically, emergence of bipolar world and satellite states.
