(June 11, 2015 at 11:31 am)Chuck Wrote: Judging from his previous posts, you are arguing against someone who, whatever he says about dictatorship, is at heart a rigid would be intellectual petty dictator who has little capacity to digest points of view not consistent his own, and who, if given a chance and the ability, would mercilessly stamp out any thinking not thought by him to be in line with his own.
I think for him, freedom essentially means dictatorship by the right people and right view point, however he would choose to represent it.
And it's a pitty that an otherwise interesting historical discussion turns into a petty pissing contest.