[lbo-talk] Dean and the White Man's Burden was Pollitt on Dean

lweiger at umich.edu lweiger at umich.edu
Sat Sep 6 12:09:10 PDT 2003


I wrote:


> > I don't see many people in non-fledgling democracies who are
> > eager to go back to monarchic or despotic models of socio-
> > political organization...
> >
> > -- Luke

Chris Doss replied:


> Hardy har har. Stalin has a 40% popularity rating here.

Which is why I qualified "democracies" with "non-fledgling" (perhaps it would've been clearer if I'd said "post-fledgling democracies").

-- Luke



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