Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Explorations of "social-interest": Democracy-bashing:Re to JoSH Message-ID: <2380066@acf4.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 03:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.2380066 Posted: Sat Jun 29 03:42:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jul-85 05:37:37 EDT References: <662@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 13 >/* baba@spar.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS) / 2:19 am Jun 26, 1985 */ >No, Tim, it is only *JoSH's* abhorrence of democracy that is explicit here. >Implicit is the notion that contempt for democracy is not incompatible >with contempt for government in general - hardly surprising. But it is >wrong to tar "most" libertarians with JoSH's brush. I hope. The point is not that Libertarians prefer other forms of choosing government than democracy -- they don't. Libertarians just want to limit the scope of government. In a country which chooses its government democratically this necessarily limits the scope of democracy. Mike Sykora