Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:23:59 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Who would you vote for?


>All pretense of bourgeois democracy, IMHO, ended
>on the day the parliament building went up in flames.
>
>Jerry

Fine, Jerry, but even by what you said, it's clear that the issue was
merely a struggle for power. The old constitution was clearly nothing like
that of a bourgeois democracy, and the members of the parliament were
concerned that they would never retain their positions of power if the
choice was up to the people. The specific issue of controlling an
ostensibly democratic process by the power to set the agenda was not
brought up, as far as I could see. The old constitution, you will note, was
also not written or approved by a constitutional convention, so defending
it could hardly be interpreted as defending bourgeois democracy.

Rahul




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