ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the theory of liberal politics to see why its basic premises are self-destructive and how its inner contradictions tend to bring about its eventual demise. Liberal politics has become an increasingly naked struggle for power played out in a media arena before an electronic mob. In the liberal scheme of things political ambition and personal libido are sublimated into a drive for wealth instead of power or dominance, and economics becomes a surrogate for politics, a channel for all the passions that might otherwise be directed into social conflict. Although the original liberals criticized allegedly archaic moral codes and the religious superstitions that supported them, they nevertheless continued to uphold the idea of morality itself. In retrospect, it seems surprising that liberal thinkers could be so blind to the dangers of moral entropy. Liberalism means exactly what it says: liberation of the self from all social or moral restraints except the necessity to keep the peace.
