Democratic movement#
Summary#
The democratic movement is characterized as the political and social inheritance of the Christian movement, representing the triumph of herding-animal morality in European culture. It shares with socialism and anarchism a fundamental hostility to hierarchy, special rights, and privilege, united by a religion of sympathy and compassion that extends to all living things. This movement embodies the instinct of the herding human animal coming to preponderance, threatening Europe with what Nietzsche calls “a new Buddhism.”