LIKE children and neurotics man as a political animal lives in a world riddled with bugbears and tabusa dream-world of symbols in which the shadows loom far larger than the realities they represent. 2Political thinkers as diverse as the English idealists and the classical Marxians 8 have incurred a common fallacy: they have taken their own sense of the logical relation of things and read it into the way men behave.Actually men behave in their political lives with a disheartening illogicality. 4They live in a jungle of fear, filled with phantoms of what they tEditor, THE NATION.
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Max Lerner (1937) studied this question.