Bertrand Russel and World Government

Crisis of Modern Civilisation
by
P.V. Kuryan


CHAPTER 4

Russel is the apostle of western democracy. Like all other Europeans, Russel also  believed in the messianic mission of west Europe to civilise the rest of mankind. He stood for a world government. But his concept of world government was rather distorted. He thought that whiteman will sooner or latter exercise hegemony over all mankind and the whitemans' western liberal traditions will slowly permete the whole human race and ultimately mankind will be united under the liberalism and hegemony of whiteman. Russel thought  President Franklin De Roosvelt as the architect of the new World order and his methods would ultimately usher in a world of prosperity and plenty and democratic liberal values. Like Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russel also never anticipated the events which followed his death, the collapse of Communist Russia, the disintegration of the Soviet empire, the increasing poverty and pauperisation of the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America and the crisis of his own Euro America.