Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered less than communism for decades-and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, nevertheless, he has found that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might believe. They both stem from your same historical origins in early modernity, and acknowledge related presuppositions about background, society, religion, politics, tradition, and human nature.

In The Demon in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two politics systems, and explains how liberal democracy has as time passes lurched to the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet-style brutality.

Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human being nature compared to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated through the obligations of the past. Both the communist guy as well as the liberal democratic guy refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the politics systems to which they pledged their devotion. And both systems refuse to undertake any important examination of their ideological prejudices.