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Luke: Terrific--Yoshie claims to be in favor of real UN democracy. So am I.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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CB: So are u what ? Claiming to be in favor of real UN democracy ?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Luke: Of course, that would entail a) the governments of despotic states<BR>
wouldn't be represented, since the will of such regimes (contra Hobbes)<BR>
rarely reflects anything like the collective will of the peoples they<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">CB: So, the U.S. government ( and French, and British..) ,as a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, wouldn't be represented.<BR>
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and b) nations would be represented in a manner proportional to their</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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populations (e.g. France should have a lot more say than Luxembourg).<BR>
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