Government is Incomplete Conquest

... face constant fear of violent death, or surrender all their rights to an absolute sovereign who would ensure peace and order. John Locke put forward a more palatable view of the social contract, much closer to the liberal-democratic ideals widely shared ... ... often transmuted into heroes and benefactors. I have in mind, not only the knights in shining armor. Consider the American Robber Barons who became America's great philanthropists (Josephson, 1962). In Russia, the former Komsomol apparatchik,...