Re: Tony Judt on the death of liberalism in America
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Chuck wrote:
They held government power, didn’t they? They enacted their ideas
using the power of the government. This clearly makes them
authoritarians. It would be news to many people that the
Sandinistas were anti-authoritarians who were somehow using their
government for anti-authoritarian goals.
Are there no degrees of authoritarianism in your view of governments?
Are they all domineering brutes? Sandinistas didn’t shoot their
opponents, which might have been a mistake.
Doug