That is one of key reasons why the right hated Cointon so much and loved Ragan so much. It is an essentially authoritarian concept of the state which is shared, inter alia, by the CPUSSR and GOP. Clinton & Co. represented a different model, which right now has definitely taken a back seat.
> So are you outlining a general
> principle, or just explaining accidents of history?
>
Jistory is nut a series of "accidents" or contingencies (which have their own explanations, of course). But beliveing that there is a generla principle or the cause in history is essentially untenable. That does not mean that you cannot cook one up, as generations of Hegellians, Kodratievities, or Wallersteinian have done, but they are but Platonic ideas, or figments of human imagination, if you will. They can be falsified quite easily.
Wojtek