Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes From: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Nicaraguan Parallel Message-ID: <193@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 11:18:52 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.193 Posted: Wed Sep 18 11:18:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 06:33:22 EDT References: <7800427@inmet.UUCP> Reply-To: carnes@gargoyle.UUCP (Richard Carnes) Organization: U. of Chicago, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 21 In article <7800427@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes: >I cannot speak for Ari Gross, BUT if you ever see a country where >pre-schoolers are militarized and singing slogans in sweet unison, >you can bet your subscription to Pravda :-) that here is yet >another implementation of a familiar model of government. The >country can be called the USSR, nazi Germany, or Cuba, or Ni- >caragua, and the slogans may differ, but the political structure, >the "technology of power" varies remarkably little. You forgot IBM. OK, Jan, we'll bite: What is the political model shared by the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua, Nazi Germany, and Big Blue? Oh, I get it, you mean statism = socialism = communism = fascism = authoritarianism = totalitarianism = dictatorship = benevolent despotism = oligarchy = absolute monarchy = syndicalism = theocracy = tyranny = slavery = conscription = democracy = taxation = theft. *That* political model. -- --- Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes