The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
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What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
The true power of free expression is revealed even in defenses of speech advocating against it.
Politically speaking, Popper had lived through much. He had seen the dissolution of the old Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
At the height of the Cold War, Western Marxists foresaw that the opportunity for an armed socialist revolution was bleak.