Post-Liberalism

Liberalism is dying—despite its superficial appearance of vigour. So says Melvyn L. Fein, who argues that almost none of liberalism's countless promises have come true. These failures are not accidental; they flow directly from liberal contradictions. This book demonstrates why this is the case, contending that an "inverse force rule" dictates that small communities are united by strong forces while large-scale societies are integrated by weak forces. As we become a more complex techno-commercial society, the weak forces become more dominant, which necessitates greater decentralization, in direct opposition to the centralization that liberals celebrate.