... mind in government has not yet shown, after exceeding even the competitive individualistic society in its cumbrous incompetence." Hesitations of Social Democracy, and the likely future of Social Democracy "These hesitations of social democracy, its uneasy mental poise between two opposing principles, socialistic regimentation and democratic liberty may be the root cause of the failure of socialism... best functioning and a sufficient life for all. If a democratic polity and machinery best assure such a working, as was thought at first, it is this that will be chosen and the result will be Social Democracy. That ideal still holds sway in northern Europe and it may there yet have a chance of proving that a successful collectivist rationalisation of society is quite possible. But if a non-democratic ...
... many of whose best elements would later join National-Socialism … Their ideology was based on the “blood and soil” motto, hate against all civilization and liberalism, humanism and pacifism, social democracy and Bolshevism, as well as against Judaism.” After 1918 the youth movement became dominated by the “völkisch-anti-Semitic-pan-German” thought, says Bronder; the social-democratic Weimar Republic ...
... while to make it as widely representative as possible and in that case the Socialists like Jai Prakash who distrust and are opposed to Communism would have to be included. There is such a thing as social democracy which need not be confused with Communism as it has its own more manageable standpoints: of course I agree with Desai as regards our standing on the side of Western democracies. Page 524 ...
... Consequently, whatever one tries to do to replace that is an approximation, and is not much better than democracy, -that is, the system which wants to govern by majority and minority (I mean social democracy, the latest trend). If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness Page 86 (that can happen, can't it?), if there is no one, then perhaps this could be replaced ...
... the times, – some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal. Your party, you say, is going to be a social democratic party. Now I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India having a spirit of her own ...
... the times, - some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal. Your party, you say, is going to be a social democratic party. Now I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India having a spirit of her ...
... best functioning and a sufficient life for all. If a democratic polity and machinery best assure such a working, as was thought at first, it is this that will be chosen and the result will be Social Democracy. That ideal still holds sway in northern Europe and it may there yet have a chance of proving that a Page 204 successful collectivist rationalisation of society is quite possible.... its own normal evolution and make ready the ways of a deeper spirit. Page 207 × These hesitations of social democracy, its uneasy mental poise between two opposing principles, socialistic regimentation and democratic liberty, may be the root cause of the failure of socialism to make good in so many countries ...
... lead? But my mind has a habit of running inconveniently ahead of the times, - some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal.... I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India having a spirit of her own... action of the Western variety, Bengal wasn't quite ready. And Sri Aurobindo didn't want a repetition of that kind of action. He had been nurturing an ideal of an altogether different kind: not a social democracy of the Western type but a deva sangha, a Community Divine, that would begin somewhere as a pilot project and then spread out and envelop the whole world. It wasn't to be an exclusive or introvert ...
... of the times,—some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal. Your party, you say, is going to be a social democratic party. Now I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India having a spirit of her own ...
... Therefore, whatever one may do instead of that is an approximation and it is not much better than democracy,—that is, the system which wants to rule by the greatest number and the lowest level—I mean social democracy, the latest trend. If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness—that can happen, can't it?—if there isn't any, there could be instead, it could be tried, government by a few—a ...
... now seems probable that the future will belong to a struggle between Communism and a surviving capitalistic Industrialism in the New World or even between Communism and a more moderate system of social democracy in the two continents of the Old World. But generally speaking, speculations noted down in this chapter at a time when the possibilities of the future were very different from what they are now ...
... are that in this kind of unification nations take the place of individuals and that these nations are mature self-conscious societies, predestined therefore to pass through pronounced forms of social democracy or some other form of socialism. It is reasonable to suppose that the World-State will tend to strive after the same principle of formation as that which obtains in the separate societies which ...
... been trying to strengthen the movement since July [1919] … I have set going very tough young people … Hitler has become a moving force … I agree fully with Mister Hitler that what is called the social-democracy of the government is completely at the mercy of the Jews … All harmful elements must, like breeders of illness, be expelled or isolated – which goes for the Jews too …” 97 Hitler’s first visit ...
... Therefore, whatever one may do instead of that is an approximation and it is not much better than democracy―that is, the system which wants to rule by the greatest number and the lowest level―I mean social democracy, the latest trend. If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness―that can happen, can't it?―if there isn't any, there could be instead, it could be tried, government by a few―a ...
... approximation, and not Page 105 a much better one than democracy—by "democracy," I mean the system that wants to rule through the greatest number and lowest masses (I am referring to "social democracy," the latest trend). If there is no representative of the supreme Consciousness (which can happen, of course), if there isn't any, we could perhaps (this would be worth trying) replace him ...
... the times - some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal. Your party, you say, is going to be a social democratic party. Now I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India, having a spirit of her ...
... the times, — some might say, out of time altogether into the world of the ideal. Your party, you say, is going to be a social democratic party. Now I believe in something which might be called social democracy, but not in any of the forms now current, and I am not altogether in love with the European kind, however great an improvement it may be on the past. I hold that India having a spirit of her own ...
... number (between 4 and 8) "who have an intuitive intelligence". That would not be a privilege of birth "but an outcome of personal effort and development". That would be far better than so-called 'social democracy', the rule by many of the lowest calibre! 27 Page 769 ...
... foundations: "This work is not mine, it is God's." India had to work out her salvation with diligence, but in a manner that was in consonance with her own genius - not just a mimicry of Western social democracy. What Sri Aurobindo had in mind was a Deva Sangh, a working group oriented towards the Divine, that would begin as a pilot project somewhere, and then spread over the whole world. All human activity ...
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