Word: democratism
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...practical matter, the democrat searched the past for every bit of political or economic wisdom which he could fit into a pattern useful for the present...
...peacetime terms, as in the final analysis, it was the battle of the compromising democrat against the implacable Left. And in this conflict the democrat was under severe handicaps. Some of the handicaps were self-imposed. In the democracies, pundits and plain people alike were simply afraid of using the four-letter words of contemporary politics. They refused to recognize or admit that the Left was indeed implacable-as it was in Russia or in the words of Britain's Harold Laski. Like the notion of sex in a previous generation, this thought was too dangerous, or too horrible...
Eternal Distinction. The democrat, who believed in the practical necessity of compromise and who acknowledged the innate imperfection and imperfectibility of man, had a creed of his own. He acknowledged the eternal distinction between the things of God and the things of Caesar, and the eternal distinction between fundamental principle and practical human expedience. He admitted that he did not understand the things of God; but to the pitifully small extent that he did understand them he called them principles-and on those he could never compromise. One of those principles, however hard of application, was Freedom. Another of those...
Evanescent Chance. Pondering the great events of 1945, the democrat could justly feel that once again he had been given another chance. One generation of tyrants had been overcome; there were many places on earth where a man could walk proudly, no matter his race or religion, his economic or political beliefs...
Twenty-seven years ago, as World War I ended, a middle-aged Social Democrat named Karl Renner became Chancellor of the first Austrian Republic. Last week, a World War later, 75-year-old Karl Renner, still a Social Democrat, was elected President of the Second Austrian Republic...