Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order Ivo Mosley Oct 2003, 96 pp., ISBN 0 907845 649 (pbk.), £8.95/$17.90 Available at reduced (subscription) price via: essays in political and cultural criticism Search Inside the Book at Amazon.com  Search Inside the Book at Amazon.co.uk Secure ordering

Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word ‘democracy’ means ‘rule by the people’, not rule by a simple majority. To achieve rule by all the people, it used to be accepted that as much of civil life should be kept out of party politics as possible. A mixed constitution was one way of achieving this. By absorbing into itself the institutions of civil society, the modern democratic state has become an ever more pervasive ‘tyranny of the majority’ accountable to the electorate only once every few years. The powers it has assumed, together with the powers of corporations, represent a ‘new world order’ that respects neither freedom, the individual, the vulnerable nor, in a true sense, the rule of law.

Growing up as the grandson of Sir Oswald, the 1930s blackshirt leader, made Ivo Mosley consider fascism with a deep and acutely personal interest, which has informed the writing in this book. He read Japanese at Oxford, and then pursued a career as a ceramicist, developing new techniques in high-temperature glazing. Now a full-time writer, he edited The Green Book of Poetry (Frontier Publishing, 1993), Earth Poems (Harper San Francisco, 1996),  and Dumbing Down: Politics, Culture and the Mass Media (Imprint Academic, 2000). His musical Danny’s Dream was produced in York in 1999 and his new musical Science was showcased in London in 2003.

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