The Demon in Democracy

"The book is written from a perspective of someone who, after having lived for many years under communism and then for more than two decades under a liberal democracy, [believes] that those two political systems have a lot in common, stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature. Moreover, [he feels that] both political systems have some similar objectives"--Publisher marketing.