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Foreign Affairs - On Civil Society: Why Eastern Europe's Revolutions Could Succeed - Michael Ignatieff |
 | | A civil society, as the eighteenth?century theorists understood it, was not necessarily a democratic society. |
 | | A society that offers no ideological quarter to the profane, to the selfish, acquisitive, self?interested sides of human motivation, leaves itself vulnerable when the promised paradise never materializes and the collective enthusiasm of total mobilization is succeeded, as it must be, by exhaustion and disillusion. |
 | | Without a strong civil society, there cannot be a debate about what kind of market to have, what portions of its surplus should be put to the use of present and future generations, and what standards of legal and commercial behavior are required to make it function properly. |
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