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

Chuck chuck at mutualaid.org
Thu Sep 14 08:40:24 PDT 2006


Doug Henwood wrote:


> 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.

Of course there are degrees of authoritarianism.

Are you saying that the fact that the Sandinistas didn't shoot people is a reason for supporting them? How do we know that they wouldn't start shooting opponents once they held power for a few decades?

Chuck



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