democracy: i wonder what the americans actually know about it? they do not have a functioning democracy.
correlate your illusions about american democracy with this:
http://webdiary.smh.com.au/archives/...on/000715.html
it is funny that bush likes to talk about democracy when he is the leading expression of a political movement that does everything possible to undermine it.
by the way, like most elements in the lists of political systems above, i do not know where this statement comes from:
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Capitalism is the theory that putting the means of production into the hands of those who produce is a good idea.
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but it seems more than a little--o whats the word--counter-intuitive given that the entire system is predicated on a seperation of ownership of the means of production from those who engage in the activites related to production. but maybe, somewhere, some capitalist ideologue did make such a statement--in the degenerate political climate particular to bushworld, such a person would immediate be labelled a comm-u-nist.
the idea that you can seperate economic and politics systems is incoherent. everything about a given economic order is the result of politics.
the modality of political activity might (and often is) shaped by economic ideologies (ideological assumptions about what the economy is, for example) and activity----but it does not follow from that that there is a hard division between politics and economics split--from a historical perspective, no-one in their right mind would argue there is. except maybe one or two residual stalinists---and other intellectual curiousities----american neoconservatives for example (who seem little concerned with questions of coherence or accuracy--power is all that matters)---or people whose jobs it is to rehearse the outlines of neoliberal ideology in its crudest form and who generally work in economics departments or students who not only take but actually believe econ 101....i suppose the list could go on....