Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 00:15:39 -0500 (EST)
From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Hayek, USSR, and All that.. (fwd)




On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, Spoon wrote:

>           
>           The Russian revolution created, for a few short years, the most
> democratic society since primitive communism.  As much as you might like 
> to, 
> you can't wish away the reality of the Soviets.
> 
> 
This is a direct response to this quote, but also to a general tendency I 
have noted in discussions on this list to valorize all things 
democratic.  It is awfully clear that Marx was not a big fan of 
democracy, that the U.S. is both a fully functioning democracy and a 
repressive/exploitative society, and that any imagined overthrow of 
international capitalism is going to have to involve crushing the middle 
class values which support the democratic system.  
Wes


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