Re: Democracy or Empire?

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Democracy or Empire?,
el 19 Nov 00, a las 14:21, Yoshie Furuhashi dijo:

>
> I think that the reason why a limited democracy helps build &
> maintain an empire is that the rulers can't afford to fight on two
> fronts, domestic & foreign, at the same time, as Machiavelli reminds
> us.  Hence the usefulness of the Democratic Party & liberal
> internationalism in America....
>
> Yoshie

But wasn't Cecil Rhodes who explained that imperialism is a matter of filling 
the
stomach of the mobs so that a civil war between Disraeli's two Englands could be
avoided?

It is very usual that the most ardent imperialists are the most democratic 
leaders,
in a social sense though not necessarily in a political sense, within their own
countries. Ted Roosevelt is an example, and even in a backward country such as 
Spain
by the 1900s you could find a Joaquín Costa...


Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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