What the Elites Want: Promoting Authoritarianism
Submitted on August 15, 2012
By KEVIN CARSON - Counterpunch
Colonial regimes atomized or perverted local social institutions...They decimated social capital and uprooted local institutions that might have provided the basis for evolution of a more liberal society...[A]n authoritarian state led to the corruption and atrophy of civil society...The bipolar superpower dynamic also contributed to greater political authoritarianism in much of the post-colonial Third World. Left-wing nationalist regimes...adopted garrison state cultures and developed closer ties with the Soviet bloc.
