[lbo-talk] Re: consensus-direct-representative democracy etc

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 4:31 PM -0400 6/2/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>But I disagee with you if you think that our current situation was 
>>produced democratically, and that more democracy would make it 
>>worse.
>
>I don't think it was produced democratically, no. But we've got to 
>deal with the world that we inherited, and on many many issues, 
>Americans hold fairly barbaric views

Once the American Empire gets defeated, they will lose many of the 
barbaric views that they currently entertain.  Just compare the 
imperial ideology that led to the Nanjing Massacre with the dominant 
view of pacific if feckless citizens of Japan today on matters of war 
and peace.

Cf. Japanese Army's Atrocities [photos]: 
<http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/page1.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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