Submitted by Dan, Dec 14, 2007 17:56

According to Mr. Kirsch, "Mr. Walzer takes for granted that the way to remedy the injustice of exclusion is an expansion of state power." I don't believe this statement, taken alone, presents Walzer's views on state power correctly. Walzer does not believe in an indefinitely expanding state. Though Walzer has confidence in the state, and Mr. Kirsch's portrayal of his idealization of the New Deal is generally accurate, Walzer acknowledges the possibility of political tyranny through communitarian initiatives and their administrations. Walzer is aware that bureaucrats can be tyrants, and his confidence in state power is limited by this ackowledgement.

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