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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades — and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. But, having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture and human nature. In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals, albeit without the Soviet style's brutal measures. Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the...

Author

Ryszard Legutko

Publisher

Encounter Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594039928

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Political Science

Rating

3.88 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14