The book certainly seems worth getting, it puts in a historical framework what I've been saying for the past three years and what I've been banned for and getting to be called a lunatic! I guess Mr. Powell and others like him would also get to be called lunatics by the fofblog crowd! It is such a great pleasure to find other lunatics like me!
"Contrary to the neoliberal propagandist of today, the book will suggest that civil society is rooted in a civic republican tradition that is the bedrock of social equality. The violence that political tyrannies have historically resorted to in suppressing or co-opting civil society attests to its political power. Religious fanatics have also grasped the potential of civil society to advance their ends. (Colas, 1997). To the rational mind, civil society is a humanist construct, rooted in the classical civilization of ancient Greece and Rome, or Confucian China. It predates Christianity and is not culturally specific. This opening chapter will seek to politically contextualise civil society within contemporary realities."
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