REVIEW ON A CLASSICAL LIBERAL IN PERU

Abstract

Karl Popper argued that the tribal spirit —eternally present in human affairs— offers us a false egalitarian order of the identity
group, with its leader, its planning, and its coerciveness. In exchange, we give up individuality, freedom, and responsibility.
Mario Vargas Llosa seizes on this idea in The Call of the Tribe, recently translated into English. There, he points directly to communism and nationalism as modern magnets that attract people to this idea of the ancestral “tribe,” and against which the sovereign individual rises up.