Bernard Crick (1929 – 2008)
British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public".
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.