Chomsky on Madison

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Sun Apr 2 19:21:52 PDT 2000


On Saturday, April 1, 2000 at 16:17:18 (-0800) Brad De Long writes:
>>
>> ><sarcasm>Ah. My mistake. I presumed that slaves--the people who work
>>>these two estates per "man"--are people too. </sarcasm>
>>>
>>>Of course, if slaves aren't people then, yes, you can read Aristotle
>>>and pretend that he is a democrat. But I cannot imagine why anyone
>>>woul want to...
>>
>>And by the same logic, because you would presumably deny the right to
>>vote for 13 year-olds, you are "anti-democratic",
>
>Not the same logic at all...

Sorry, it is. Aristotle believed in restricting democracy to certain groups. You, I assume, do as well. That does not necessarily make you or Aristotle an anti-democrat. Narrow-minded, perhaps, but it doesn't convince me that you are against the idea of democracy.

Bill



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