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By Michael Walzer

ISBN-10: 0300213913

ISBN-13: 9780300213911

A number of the winning campaigns for nationwide liberation within the years following international warfare II have been at first according to democratic and secular beliefs. as soon as proven, even if, the newly self sufficient international locations needed to take care of totally unforeseen spiritual fierceness.

Michael Walzer, certainly one of America’s most advantageous political thinkers, examines this complicated development via learning India, Israel, and Algeria, 3 countries whose founding rules and associations were sharply attacked by means of 3 totally different teams of spiritual revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned dialogue, Walzer asks, Why have those secular democratic pursuits been not able to breed their political tradition past one or generations?

In a postscript, he compares the problems of latest secularism to the profitable institution of secular politics within the early American republic—thereby making a controversy for American exceptionalism yet gravely noting that we will be much less extraordinary this day.

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Ben Bella received France’s highest military honor and a kiss on each cheek from Charles de Gaulle himself. Often the leaders of the oppressed identify with an ­oppositional ideology in the imperial country—like the Marxism of some FLNers, or the Fabian socialism of Nehru and the Indian National Congress (Winston Chur­ chill was simply wrong when he called Nehru a communist), or the east European social democracy of David Ben-Gurion and Mapai, the dominant party in the Zionist movement and then in Israel’s first three decades.

A yearning for return to the long-lost homeland played an important part in that religion; the idea of political independence played no part at all. 3 Exilic politics had only two aspects. First, Jews submitted to gentile rule; they practiced a politics of deference. Second, they patiently waited for divine redemption; they practiced a politics of deferred hope. In fact, a lot more can be said about the political experience of the Jews, but it is this dualism that is reflected in their law and literature.

30 Theodor Herzl, author of Der Judenstaat, was another entirely typical nationalist leader. With a very good Austrian education and not much of a Jewish education, he knew far more about other nations than about his own and was at home with the idea of Jewish statehood because he was at home with people who already had a state. Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s first president, studied in German universities and then secured a position as research scholar and lecturer in the University of Manchester, where he became a political Anglophile.

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