Absolute judgment

Democracy at the beginning of the twentieth century was a nascent political system that began to strip away the supposed sanctity of absolute dictatorships, and gave peoples the right to govern themselves. Al-Aqqad says that the exaggeration in enthusiasm for the fledgling democracy caused some to be disappointed when it did not achieve quick solutions for the countries involved, and then the forces of reaction overcame it, aiming to return and restore the old regimes; therefore, these forces began criticizing the very idea of democracy and promoting its failure. But Al-Aqqad affirms that democracy did not fail, rather it only has flaws resulting from the flaws of human nature itself, and he presents models of some European countries that adhered to dictatorship and rejected democracy "at that time," explaining the reasons and specificities of the situation of those countries politically and socially; he concludes his book by calling for patience in judging the fledgling democracy as a new political system.