POL4136 Chapter Notes -Claude Lefort, Totalitarianism, Everyman
13 Apr 2014
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Political forms of modern society claude lefort. The question that claude lefort is trying to address in this reading is the question of whether human rights belong in the political sphere? . Lefort attempts to answer this question by giving the example of the soviet. Union and the action they took against dissidents: At this time marxism began to change; it took on a liberal phraseology. This change came from the discovery of the concentration camps in the soviet union and the efforts of dissidents throughout socialist states. These events all had an impact on human rights and the demand for respect. These rights that people were fighting for embodied the struggle against oppression. The actions of the dissidents gave rise to a re-evaluation of human rights: The dissidents had no political ambition, they were fighting for the guarantees in force that democratic nations had.
