Date: 28 Sep 96 05:55:49 EDT
From: jc mullen <100663.643-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: the state redux & socialism


The main elements of capitalist liberal democracy are in fact almost total
control of the important decisions of society by simply those who have the money
to buy factories and insurance companies, newspapers or television stations, the
appearance of popular participation by almost universal suffrage in a context
where the candidates proposed all support capitalism, violent repression
whenever there is a real threat to who controls, cheerful support for the most
bloody dictatorships in other parts of the worls if they suit the financial and
strategic interests of the richest people in the world. 
	On other planets, it might be different I guess. Even to use the
expression "liberal democracy" is a bit of a mistake. Capitalist democracy is
more accurate.
	Under socialism naturally democracy will be a hundred times wider,
because we won't have unelected people deciding to throw us on the dole, declare
war on masses of workers elsewhere in the world, or organize famines because
food prices are "too low".
John Mullen
SI France



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