Charles Jannuzi wrote:
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> You also used the term 'parliamentary system' [clip]
Quick and sloppy usage. "Bourgeois democracy." "Electoral democracy."
Whatever.
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> Yet, since so many ideas that affect the evolution of the relationship
> between government and society have to come from the left, this is a sore
> lack in the US. Do you think all the people who voted Green in Europe are
> dyed-in-the-wool Greens devoted to that movement to the end? Or those who
> voted for right wing politicians in Austria, for example?
Of course not. That huge gap between the assent expressed in a vote and the assent needed by a mass movement (such as an anti-war movement) was the burden of my post. I'm laying a basis for my dismissal of tactics designed to achieve "popularity" for a person or idea.
Carrol
> Charles Jannuzi