[lbo-talk] Fwd: Should Iraq Be Democratized?

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Apr 16 08:07:54 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:37 AM Subject: [lbo-talk] Fwd: Should Iraq Be Democratized?


> [fascinating insight into the libertarian mind here - if postwar
> Germany had been democratic, they would have chosen the wrong
> policies - ditto Iraq - you need some good authoritarians to
> establish "freedom"]

Many libertarians will freely admit that they don't favor democracy so much as constitutional republics--where the constitutions severely limit democracy (to put it tendentiously but simply, libertarians don't want the masses to take their stuff away). Of course, I think most all of us agree that a sustainable democracy requires some limits to, say, eliminate the possibility that the people could elect a dictator for life.

-- Luke



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