Liberalism som tyranni?

John Millbank, professor i Nottingham i religion och etik gör 20.7 ett frontangrepp på liberalismen som en väg mot tyranni.  Utdrag nedan

"Thus increasingly, liberal politics revolves around supposedly guarding against alien elements: the terrorist, the refugee, the person of another race, the foreigner, the criminal, and so on. Populism seems more and more to be an inevitable drift of unqualified liberal democracy.
Consequently, the purported defence of liberal democracy itself is often used in order to justify the suspension of democratic decision-making and civil liberties. And so, somewhat paradoxically, it is liberalism that tends to suspend those values of liberality - fair trial, right to a defence, assumed innocence, habeas corpus, a measure of free speech and free enquiry, good treatment of the convicted - which it has taken over, but which as a matter of historical record it did not invent.
These supposedly liberal values derive rather from Roman and Germanic law transformed by the infusion of the Christian notion of charity which, in certain dimensions, means a generous giving of the benefit of the doubt, as well as succour even to the accused or wicked."

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