Re: Democracy or Empire?

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol writes:
> Democracy of one sort or another, limited in one way or another, has
> always been the most efficient system of imperial rule. Democracy *and* Empire.

so you're saying that we should get rid of democracy? I think that instead
we need to _perfect_ democracy, among other things by extending it to the
world, to create _global_ democracy (the opposite of imperialism). That's a
hard nut to crack, of course, but it tells us the direction which we should
be trying to go.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine "Segui il
tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.)
-- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.