Abstract
Realism is an abiding aspect of politics. In aspiration and criticism, practice and theory, deed and word, politics return insistently to facing hard facts, making tough choices, then doing whatever needs to be done—in the conviction that true responsibility requires no less and that the ends will justify the means. Some people take realism to be the whole of politics, some the soul of politics, some their bane or debasement, and some just one perspective among others. But few would (or think they could) banish realism altogether from politics. Rather most see realism as present in the origins, prominent in the destinations, and persistent in the machinations of Western—even world—civilization. And the same goes for its principal contrary, idealism.
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