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Article: Liberal democracy's final hour?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 26, 2002
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Byline: Paul Craig Roberts, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
When the Soviet Union collapsed a decade ago, neoconservatives proclaimed "the end of history," by which they meant the emergence of an ecumenical world organized by liberal democracy.
Noting China's ambitions and the re-emergence of Islam, skeptics regard the neoconservative thesis as little more than an expression of hope. China and Islam aside, powerful developments within the West itself are leading away from liberal democracy.
These developments are both intellectual and political. For example, multiculturalism and the emergence of group rights based on victim status are eroding equality in ...