[lbo-talk] Tony Judt on the death of liberalism in America

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 14 07:36:50 PDT 2006


On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Chuck wrote:


> They held government power, didn't they? They enacted their ideas
> using the power of the government. This clearly makes them
> authoritarians. It would be news to many people that the
> Sandinistas were anti-authoritarians who were somehow using their
> government for anti-authoritarian goals.

Are there no degrees of authoritarianism in your view of governments? Are they all domineering brutes? Sandinistas didn't shoot their opponents, which might have been a mistake.

Doug



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