tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post116453426570498335..comments2024-03-27T07:47:11.168-07:00Comments on LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Comment: Libertarian JusticeEUGENE PLAWIUKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1164849736711450562006-11-29T17:22:00.000-08:002006-11-29T17:22:00.000-08:00Eugene, I can understand usage for provocation's s...Eugene, I can understand usage for provocation's sake. My quarrel lies with my much more historical approach to the conceptualizaiton of 'the State' in political theory, and so with your attribution of the articulation of 'the State's' powers. My historical reading follows the work of Quentin Skinner, <I>The Foundations of Modern Political Thought</I>, whose endpoint is the articulation of the concept of 'the State'. And obviously your approach and mine differ since we come to the question with different philosophical baggage. Perhaps because I lack an understanding of where it is you're coming from, I find your language melodramatic in this instance. Thanks for stopping by my blog! (As an aside, you may enjoy the blog comment tracker cocomment: www.cocomment.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1164845043484239512006-11-29T16:04:00.000-08:002006-11-29T16:04:00.000-08:00It was not meant to convince but to provoke. When ...It was not meant to convince but to provoke. When politicians claim to speak out for Law and Order they are speaking as authoritarians. All such claims are based thus on the need of the State, and while conservatives may speak for the need to minimalize the States power or call for less government, they remain defenders and promoters of the very worst aspect of the State, its policing powers over its citizenz. That to me would mean they are calling on the State to be not just an arbitrator but an armed force over individuals.EUGENE PLAWIUKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11736971647879996375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9311998.post-1164674560782008042006-11-27T16:42:00.000-08:002006-11-27T16:42:00.000-08:00That has to be the most laughable use of the word ...That has to be the most laughable use of the word authoritarian I have read to date. I can't even begin to describe what a butchery of language is going on here, even though I'm somewhere near you on the political spectrum. Do you for one minute think that this sort of rhetoric convinces anyone, friend or foe alike?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com