The New State - Introduction
from Spelthy podcasts
This episode presents the introduction to *The New State*, arguing that modern politics has outgrown party rule, ballot-box democracy, and the idea of citizens as isolated individuals or faceless crowds. Instead, it calls for group organization as the foundation of self-government, claiming that democracy must be built through living relationships, shared purpose, and the creative power of people acting together. The introduction ranges across industrial conflict, pluralism, labor, the state, and the search for a political method that can make government truly responsive. It frames self-government as a psychological and social process rather than something simply granted by voting, and sets up the book’s larger project: exploring how individual, group, and state can be brought into a workable new order.
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