>Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Brad De Long wrote:
>>
>> >Of course I support the broad outlines of U.S. occupation policy in
>> >Japan. It appears to have worked damned well--unless you think
>> >freedom of speech, regular elections, and material prosperity are
>> >bad things.
>>
>> So a "liberal" order always rests on a founding coercion?
>
>Come now Doug. Do you know of any "order" (liberal, reactionary,
>what have you) at any time or place that did not rest on a founding
>coercion. Marx makes the point in the *Grundrisse* about land
>tenure resting on military occupation.
Of course. But a liberal order pretends otherwise - it pretends to be the realm of liberty, equality, and Bentham, as the Old Man said.
Doug