SOC101Y1 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 Ideology
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Grappled with both the industrial and democratic rev"ns. Feared the victory of the demos would lead to the erosion of the aristocratic values and institutions. The history of france showed that the rising masses made way for despotism. In america, people ruled, freedom, government based on separation of and balance of powers. Never had an old regime nor a great industrial area, the absence of this made their form of order and liberty possible. One meaning of democracy": referred to the permanent revolt of the lower classes. In europe, there needed to be a new science of politics for a new world, and the lack of this accounted for the extreme violence of the social conflict in france. The priviledged were bent on letting the people govern. Democracy is evil and the benefits were ignored. At the beginning, the middle-class fought against the growth of an aristocracy.
