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