Re: Similarities: Contemporary US and WWII Germany

My recollection is that when Gandhi was asked about "Western 
Civilization," he replied:
"It's a good idea, they should try it."

Tim

At 4:27 PM +0000 10/29/03, Seyed Javad wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I agree with this and have one thing to add. All empires do use 
> coercive forces to subjugate any independent moves within or without 
> the walls of empire; be it mental or physical (although both always 
> go hand in hand!). But the point is not the use of force or the 
> declaration of war. On the contrary, when any empire feels the need 
> to declare it and to resort to naked force that actually says 
> something important about the state of the empire in terms of its 
> internal strength or weakness. As a matter of fact this is a great 
> time for those who have for long aspired for emancipation becasue 
> the empire is falling and the prospect of the new ones are not clear 
> enough. There has never been any 'democratic empire' and the very 
> notion democracy, at best, is a good idea as Gandhi once asked about 
> 'Western Civilization' said: it is a good idea! That something is a 
> good idea does not necessarily mean that it is.
>
> Kind Regards
>
>
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