ABSTRACT
Winston Churchill was one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest, representative of the western tradition of liberty in the twentieth century. But while Churchill was crossing the floor between two parliamentary parties, strong intellectual fashions in Europe were attacking parliamentary democracy and market economies. In brief strokes of the pen he captured the essence of both revolutionary populisms. Churchill understood from the outset that the aim of Bolshevism was world revolution, and he made his standpoint very clear: The Bolshevik aim of world revolution can be pursued equally in peace or war. Churchill did not attribute to a single party or a single political family this sort of consensus on limited and small government. Churchill certainly perceived the British and the Anglo-American tradition of liberty as part of the broader western civilisation. But Churchill certainly thought that the tradition of liberty belonged to Europe as a whole and not only to Britain or to the English-speaking peoples.
