[lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Oct 19 14:32:52 PDT 2003


Joseph Wanzala wrote:


>To present a critique of democracy is not necessarily to be
>proposing fascism, indeed part of his critique of Democracy is that
>it can result in the election of a 'Fuhrerprinzip' like Jurg Haider.
>Obviously Treanor is interested in the development of more effective
>systems of governance of the kinds I assume we would all support in
>a general sense. Chomsky and others also critique Democracy - does
>that make them implicitly supportive of fascism? Is there anything
>in Treanor's writing or background that you base you query on?

I listed three options - Naziism, Leninism, and the debased kind of anarchy. I didn't say he was a partisan of any of them. I was just offering three alternatives to liberal democracy. I'm sure there are many more. Which is Treanor's?

Doug



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