A social contract sounds seriously boring, the sort of thing communist subversives and patter merchants would use as an excuse in their ramblings. Rousseau seems to have been something of an oik even though he got taken seriously. Burke got it right; Society is a contract between the dead, the living and the unborn. It is our duty to keep England in good heart for our descendants. It is a duty grossly breached by Brown, Blair and Cameron. The Wikipedia puts a very different view, one which sounds much like an excuse for tyranny. Read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself.
A Righter Shade Of Green
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This explains why crimes committed in left-wing causes tend to be excused or overlooked, while misdemeanours on the Right, however identified, are impossible to live down. Compare the careers of György Lukács [ a Jew ] and Martin Heidegger [ German ]. Lukács was a very clever literary critic, who took part in the Communist revolution in Hungary after World War I and joined the government of Béla Kun [ also a Jew ]. As a political commissar, he was responsible for purges, executions, and cultural suppression. When Kun’s government was overthrown, he fled to Vienna, returning after World War II to assist the revolutionary Communist government in purifying Hungary of dissident intellectuals. His career is one long history of crime and deception, yet he has been consistently revered as a leading left-wing thinker: the person who showed us how to apply Marxism to literary criticism and how to understand literature as a genuinely revolutionary force.Heidegger was also involved in totalitarian movements, though never in government. He joined the Nazi Party and was made a rector of his university by the Nazis. After the war, he was disgraced for this and has never really been rehabilitated. Given the left-wing myth that Nazism was “on the right,” the explanation is simple: Heidegger belonged to the wrong set of criminals.
In response to Rosseau’s doctrine of the Social Contract, Burke agreed that society is, indeed, a contract. But it is a contract between the living, the unborn, and the dead. We mistreat the unborn when we take away the legacy that they are entitled to inherit, and we mistreat the dead by regarding ourselves as the sole proprietors of the things that they have left to us. In ignoring and despising the dead, we traduce the unborn: such, for Burke, was the lesson of the French Revolution, and it is a lesson repeated in our times by the revolutionary movements of the 20th century.
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There are some very clever liars out there manipulating us through corrupt politicians. Do you own thinking before believing any of them.