[lbo-talk] One or two flawed historical analogies (was Re: Stratfor: Western Misconceptions Meet Iranian Reality)

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 23:23 -0400, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 17:50 -0700, Chris Doss wrote:
> > Speaking as somebody who lives in Russia -- most people in Russia
> > think the government is not authoritarian enough. It's the main
> > complaint.
> 
> My analogy may well have been flawed, thus the subject.

(Left this bit out) ... but I do think it holds up pretty well. The
authoritarian idea won out in Weimer too...