>> [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"]
"Far from being a simple matter of liberal hypocrisy, of denying its commitment to liberty, the resort to authoritarian rule in certain cases is a necessary consequence of the liberal understanding of that commitment. Liberty and domination are joined in liberal thought like two sides of a single coin: the value of one may appear on the face, but the figure of the other is firmly stamped on the reverse. Liberal political reason has been as much concerned with paternalistic rule over minors and adults judged to be incompetent as with the government of autonomous individuals, as much concerned with the subject peoples of imperial possessions as with the free inhabitants of Western states." Hindess, B. (2001) ³The Liberal Government of Unfreedom² Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 26(2):93