Archive for April, 2010

Why Alexis de Tocqueville admired the federated regime of the United States:

In the American republics the central government has never as yet busied itself except with a small number of objects, sufficiently prominent to attract its attention. The secondary affairs of society have never been regulated by its authority; and nothing has hitherto betrayed its desire of even interfering in them.

(Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America)

And now just think about the European Union (and, if necessary, what Marx did to Hegel’s dialectics).