Inferiority of French Revolution Part 3Discriminative worldview of Western LiberalismIn On Liberty Mill argued that “Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion” (1963, vol. 18: 224). Thus “Despotism is a legitimate form of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement…” (1963, vol. 18: 224). This passage — infused with the spirit of nineteenth century imperialism (and perhaps, as some maintain, latent racism) — is often ignored by defenders of Mill as an embarrassment (Parekh, 1994; Parekh, 1995; Mehta, 1999; Pitts, 2005).
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Rawls argues that liberal peoples must distinguish ‘decent’ non-liberal societies from ‘outlaw’ and other states; the former have a claim on liberal peoples to tolerance while the latter do not (1999a: 59–61). Decent peoples, argues Rawls, ‘simply do not tolerate’ outlaw states which ignore human rights: such states may be subject to ‘forceful sanctions and even to intervention’ (1999a: 81). In contrast, Rawls insists that “liberal peoples must try to encourage [non-liberal] decent peoples and not frustrate their vitality by coercively insisting that all societies be liberal” (1999a: 62).
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/#LibTheValContinuation of French Revolution's ideological ideas which promoting democracy and progressivism or westernization, resulting enhancement of racial-oppression, or colonialism
See previous analysis of French Revolution :
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/it-was-not-'blacks'-who-falsify-islamic-teachings-and-destroy-the-islamic-caliph/msg17417/#msg17417https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/coups-colonialism-in-haiti-france-u-s-urged-to-pay-reparations-for-destroying-na/msg17704/#msg17704https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/coups-colonialism-in-haiti-france-u-s-urged-to-pay-reparations-for-destroying-na/msg14924/#msg14924