"...if you take the basic classic liberal principles and apply them to the modern period, I think you actually come pretty close to the principles that animated revolutionary Barcelona in the late 1930s -- to what's called 'anarcho-syndicalism.' I think that's about as high a level as humans have yet achieved in trying to realize these libertarian principles, which in my view are the right ones..." [Understanding Power, p. 222]. --CGE
On Sun, 30 May 2004, Luke Weiger wrote:
> Agreed with most of what I read in this article:
> http://www.zmag.org/ZMagSite/May2004/shalom0504.html
>
> But this sentence jumped out at me: "Perhaps in the longer term, as
> hostility and fear subside and relations are more firmly developed
> along non-national lines, there will be a possibility of moving
> towards a federal version of binationalism, then perhaps on to closer
> integration, perhaps even to a democratic secular state though it is
> far from obvious that that is the optimal arrangement for complex
> societies, there or elsewhere, a different matter."
>
> Huh? Democratic secularism isn't obviously ideal when realizable?
> Perhaps better arrangements exist on other possible worlds, or maybe
> even in a distant future populated by a new sort of man, but...