Re: Democracy or Empire?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky wrote:

>
> 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...

Teddy Roosevelt in a letter expressed the wish that they could line strikers up
against the wall and shoot them. He heartily approved of the executions in Paris
after the fall of the Commune. He had an awfully good press -- but was really
quite a slimeball.

Carrol