[lbo-talk] 'Democrazy'

Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org
Mon Oct 20 17:09:56 PDT 2003


On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote:


> Whatever you think of Treanor, democracy is in mortal crisis and in
> need of serious review. I don't see that mush difference between what
> Paul Treanor is saying and what Arundhati Roy has said about democracy
> (Yes, I have posted this at least three times before - but people seem
> to conveniently ignore it)

OK, I'll stop ignoring it and come right out and state my view: Ms. Roy is not the world's most eminent living political thinker, either.

But at least she's not a nutter, like our friend Paul.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.' -- Sir Arnold Bax



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