ABSTRACT
In his 1980s interviews with Benny Lévy, Sartre says that only “after we have properly defi ned fraternity without terror, we will have to come back one day to fraternity-terror.”1 To do so, the fi rst step we have to take is to “see what the relation is between democracy and fraternity,” before we defi ne fraternity without terror.2 With the democratization of the MiddleEast taking shape in the wake of the invasions into Afghanistan and Iraq during the course of the ‘war on terror’, it is opportune we “examine the idea of democracy fi rst in its political form” and its possible limitations before outlining Sartre’s socialist hopes for an ethics of ‘universal fraternity’.3
