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"They concede that the opposition may disagree with the party in power on precisely how the state must operate, but agree that it should operate..." I don't ge
by martinced 14y ago
"They concede that the opposition may disagree with the party in power on precisely how the state must operate, but agree that it should operate..."
I don't get that sentence from TFA. Is the author really against any kind of statism?
Even most libertarian don't argue that there should be no state operating at all. Only crazy anarchists advocate for no state at all, like in Somalia ; )
- cstross 14y agoI am not anti-statist. I was trying to set out the difference between systems that acknowledge a Loyal Opposition, and totalitarian/one-party/monarchical systems, where the centre of power explicitly rejects the legitimacy of other groups' aspirations and desires for how the state should be run.