Abstract

For more than half a century, analysts have presented Tocqueville as a counterpoise to Marx. J.-P. Mayer, who helped reintroduce Tocqueville after considerable neglect in the early twentieth century, pictured Tocqueville as a “Prophet of the Mass Age,” a prophet having found a middle way between the twin dangers of Marxism on the left and Fascism on the right. In the 1960s it was fashionable to declare that Tocqueville defended a “pluralistic political system” as an alternative to Marxist-Leninist tyrannies.

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