第12章 権力と統治形態 n.32 - 民主主義が安定したものになる条件
けれども,民主主義が,近い将来,19世紀の後半にもっていたような威厳をはたして取り戻しそうかどうか疑うべき理由はいくつか存在している。我々は民主主義が安定したものとなるためには伝統的なものとならなくてはならないとこれまで述べてきた。民主主義が東欧とアジアで十分確立されたものとなり,伝統的なものとなる過程を踏みだすために,どのような機会(チャンス)があるであろうか?(有しているであろうか?) |
Chapter XII: Powers and Forms of Governmants, n.32Democracy, when it is new, arises from resentment against the previous holders of power; but so long as it is new it is unstable. Men who represent themselves as enemies of the old monarchs or oligarchs may succeed in restoring a monarchical or oligarchical system : Napoleon and Hitler could win public support when the Bourbons and Hohenzollern could not. It is only where democracy has lasted long enough to become traditional that it is stable. Cromwell, Napoleon, and Hitler appeared in the early days of democracy in their respective countries ; in view of the first two, the third should be in no way surprising. Nor is there reason to suppose him more permanent than his predecessors.There are, however, some serious reasons for doubting whether, in the near future, democracy is likely to recover the prestige that it had in the latter half of the nineteenth century. We have been saying that, in order to become stable, it must become traditional. What chance has it of becoming sufficiently established in Eastern Europe and Asia to begin the process of becoming traditional? |