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Little known in the West and largely forgotten in Russia until the early 2000s, Ilyin (1883-1954) had actually been expelled by the Bolshevik state shortly after the Revolution. His early writings, relying on a novel interpretation of the Biblical creation myth, demonstrated antipathy to secular human society and held that all efforts by mankind to impose a pluralistic political order were simply deepening man’s estrangement from God, and that this estrangement could only be corrected by the intervention of a unifying political leader. The means such a leader employed to “unify” the sinful, impure secular world were beside the point, as the end goal (generally speaking) was reunification with the original Divine plan. Since nothing could possibly be more important than that, any means to achieve it were permissible (including, presumably, violence, murder, and genocide). | Little known in the West and largely forgotten in Russia until the early 2000s, Ilyin (1883-1954) had actually been expelled by the Bolshevik state shortly after the Revolution. His early writings, relying on a novel interpretation of the Biblical creation myth, demonstrated antipathy to secular human society and held that all efforts by mankind to impose a pluralistic political order were simply deepening man’s estrangement from God, and that this estrangement could only be corrected by the intervention of a unifying political leader. The means such a leader employed to “unify” the sinful, impure secular world were beside the point, as the end goal (generally speaking) was reunification with the original Divine plan. Since nothing could possibly be more important than that, any means to achieve it were permissible (including, presumably, violence, murder, and genocide). | ||
==== Global democracy has a very bad year ==== | ===== Global democracy has a very bad year===== | ||
[https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/02/02/global-democracy-has-a-very-bad-year?utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1mDx1WJNowMdIECJZtROJ6OI2R9VTuyqTNpjjflbBdaBsI_sxLQgC1shg The Economist Feb 2 2021] | [https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/02/02/global-democracy-has-a-very-bad-year?utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1mDx1WJNowMdIECJZtROJ6OI2R9VTuyqTNpjjflbBdaBsI_sxLQgC1shg The Economist Feb 2 2021] | ||
GLOBAL DEMOCRACY continued its decline in 2020, according to the latest edition of the Democracy Index from our sister company, The Economist Intelligence Unit. The annual survey, which rates the state of democracy across 167 countries based on five measures—electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture and civil liberties—finds that just 8.4% of the world’s population live in a full democracy while more than a third live under authoritarian rule. The global score of 5.37 out of ten is the lowest recorded since the index began in 2006. | |||
Interactive map rating all the world's political systems. | =====Democracy 2024===== | ||
[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/political-regime Our World Data by Anna Lührmann, Marcus Tannenberg and Staffan Lindberg.] | |||
Interactive map rating all the world's political systems. | |||
=====Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone?===== | =====Can The Forces Unleashed By Trump's Big Election Lie Be Undone?===== | ||
