>>> Rob Schaap <rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au> 05/24/00 09:47PM >>>
Hear, hear, Alexandre. If it ain't democratic, it not only ain't
socialist, it ain't even on the road to socialism. Democracy is the ONLY
guard against the gradual consolidation of competing interests into
competing classes, I reckon.
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CB: Spoken as a true liberal.
The reverse is true today. If it ain't socialist, then it ain't democratic. That's a Marxist approach to democracy.
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I'm taken with old Lord Acton's aphorism about a world in which our individualistic and distorted notions of power rule: 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely'.
An oldie, but a goodie.
Cheers, Rob (a 'liberal' because he actually thinks 'all power to the Soviets' would have been a good idea ... )
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CB: Or as the Black Panthers said, All Power to the People,
an oldie but goodie derived from "All Power to the Soviets " and the U.S. Constitutional Preamble ("We, the People"). Popular Sovereignty.