--dfv
At 05:46 PM 1/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Chris Burford wrote:
>
>>This really has an international significance. It is more than that Germans
>>have been discovered to behave like Italians. I do not know if you would
>>agree, but in some ways the German constitution was set up by the allies to
>>be a model of rational bourgeois democracy. The fact that it too has been
>>hit by the severe funding scandals shows this is one of the most vulnerable
>>areas of the bourgeois system.
>
>It's amazing to me to hear what makes for a political money scandal in
>Europe. What Kohl did is pretty much out in the open here in the U.S.A. I
>interviewed Tony Benn on the radio a few months ago, and he was describing
>the scandals of campaign cash in Britain. It too sounded like pretty weak
>stuff. Maybe that's the genius of the American system - hide something in
>the open. Everyone here knows that big money runs politics, but it just
>goes on & on.
>
>Doug
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