The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c6.s1.2

c6.s1.2

The world is moving fast. The accepted postulates of sovereignty, nationality and democracy have been undermined by the Great War. The doctrine of the will of the people as the basis of the state is no longer to remain a pious wish of Rousseauesque philosophers. Initiative, referendum and recall are on the fair way to ring out “representative” government and inaugurate once more an era of “direct democracies”. The quality of democracy itself is being powerfully affected by the advance of public ownership and municipalization, socialistic usurpation and communistic expropriation, as well as schemes for “progressive” taxation and repudiation of national debt. For, Mother Earth has commenced leavening the conventional “popular government” of the past three generations with the flesh and blood of the masses and manual workers, the real People in the human species.