The necessary bilingualism of Christians

Abstract

Although philosophers and other intellectuals have always reflected on politics, by which I mean the power-relations existing in all human societies, the need for explicit mass political education was only felt in special circumstances. The major examples of these special circumstances that come to mind are two. In the first place, the need to impart a general political education, which was called 'civics', was felt in countries which received a large number of emigrants from other countries with different political system, e.g. in the United States of America, with its system of liberal capitalism, the political education of new corners from the authoritarian agrarian societies of Czarist Russia or Bourbon Sicily, was felt to be a necessity.