Anti-Americanism?

[PureX]

Take a look at the following quote which mr Webb uses.

"The Americans may have preserved a cult of Liberty but they do not feel the need to liberate themselves from the servitude which their capitalism has created. "
It is time that we understood that this attitude, this contempt for what democracy can do, is at the heart of at least some of the anti-Americanism we see in the world today"

So a: Capitalism is equal to democracy, at least in Mr Webb's mind.
b: contempt for capitalism is ergo a contempt for democracy.
c: Some French writers & philosophers have a contempt for American Capitalism so ipso facto they are contemptuouse of democracy.

This argument is untenable, my goodness me, if a student turned this in on an undergraduate certificate in politics they would rightly get an F. A contempt for the inequities of capitalism does NOT mean that there is an identical contempt for democracy, they are NOT synonymous.

I think you completely misunderstood the quote. The quote is saying that democracy can do more than what we Americans are doing with it, and that one of the things it could do is free us from the "servitude which capitolism has created". Yet we have not used it to do so.

And in fact he is quite right. Democracy could do this, and we have not used it to do so.

 

[kiwimac]

Well,

It is possible that I could be wrong but I'm not sure your interpretation is right either.