Democracy and freedom

Abstract

For centuries, the world has witnessed the flourishing and withering of numerous political systems, from simple and rudimentary social organizations, to cultures of extraordinary splendor and development, as they were: China in Asia; Egypt and Persia in the East; Greece and Rome in the West; or the Aztec or Inca Empires in the new world. The organization and political work is therefore not a recent phenomenon but, on the contrary, already quite old. As such, it has always been a source of reflection on the part of thinkers trying to value and explain it. Within this perspective, Ferdinand Peroutka's "Democratic Manifesto" is therefore not an innovative genre oblivious to intellectual work. However, in an age dominated by political problems, when the complexity of modern life and its accelerated pace of conduct, coupled with the excessive specialization of human knowledge, have led society, and man in general, to live under the tragic spectrum of mediocrity and conformism, it is stimulating to find works such as Thatoutka's , of great transcendence and courage, which touch one to the most intimate of his being, and lead him to hope that the struggle for our rights and convictions is not yet finished; especially now that democracy, as Berle rightly states, "is on the threshold of an immensely fertile new period." With this sense of faith in man's future, I wanted to take on the task of writing this essay as a means of contribution to understanding and studying this our political system: democracy.