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Tomaž Mastnak

Tomaž Mastnak is a research scholar at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, and emeritus director of research at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is working on the history of political and social thought. icon

Democracy’s Defeat Started at Versailles

By Tomaž Mastnak

Rather than extend democracy into economics (as socialism was then understood), postwar elites stifled democracy in politics instead.

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