Raymond Aron and Spain

Authors

  • Pedro Carlos González Cuevas

Keywords:

Liberalism, marxism, secular religion, industrial society, representative democracy

Abstract

Raymond Aron is one of the greatest innovators of postwar liberalism, by the assimilation to his speech the sociological thought, the Keynesian economics and the political realism. In that sense, their highest contribution were the concept of industrial society, a realistic view of representative democracy, an historical sociology applied to international relations, a critic of the political and economic Hayek’s neoliberalism and his view of Marxism-Leninism as a secular religion. The reception of his work in Spain had some difficulties, first by the existence of an authoritarian political regime and then by emergence of a new left heavily infl uenced by Marxism. However, at present, Aron is a highly respected intellectual in political and intellectual circles of the spanish right.

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