Re: Democracy or Empire?

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> 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.

It all depends on what you mean by "_global_ democracy."  Naturally,
I don't think you mean what Chris Burford means (_a shudder_), but....

Yoshie