Dr. Harold Lasswell and his school endeavor to attribute all political behavior except their own to neuroses— mental sickness. Certainly there is a great deal of oddity in modern practical politics; but the neurosishypothesis leaves out of account the power of ideology. Far from being identical with political philosophy, “ideology” means political religion, promising the Terrestrial Paradise through fanatic adherence to political dogmas. Both neurosis and ideology do much mischief to modern civil social orders.
Kirk
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