[lbo-talk] Europe's soft coup

[Marv Gandall]

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> On 2012-02-24, at 7:55 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Marv: " unelected government of technocrats would be less subject to
> > political, ie. democratic, pressure from below"
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> > [WS:]  To be honest, I've seen both.  I lived in a country ruled by an
> > unelected executive committee and one ruled by the so-called elected
> > 'representatives' .  I see no significant difference between the two
> > regarding responsiveness to "pressures from below"  - both respond
> > only if sufficiently threatened.
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> Of course - all governments respond equally if threatened. But, that
> apart, the EU powers are not wrong to assume that Monti is unconstrained by
> the normal political pressure exercised through the electoral system on
> political parties, including right-wing ones like Berlusconi's. That's why
> the latter was replaced by Merkozy. You cited Monti favourably in
> conjunction with your Fabian admiration of technocracy as a superior form
> of government to democracy, even of the corrupted "bourgeois" kind, which
> was what prompted my reply.