Re: [OPE] Venezuela and Human Rights Watch

dogangoecmen@aol.com wrote:
> i know you think of his famous distinction between monarchy,
> aristocracy and democracy.
> as important as this historically may be it no longer applies to our
> time. hegel is right in saying
> that in modern times one cannot be aristotelian. the langiage we have
> to use is that that has been established since french revolution to
> describe modern forms of states and governements. have a nice weekend, DG.
>
I dont agree, if we accept that, we accept the self presentation of
bourgeois plutocracies as democracies.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
> To: Outline on Political Economy mailing list <ope@lists.csuchico.edu>
> Sent: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:03
> Subject: Re: [OPE] Venezuela and Human Rights Watch
>
> dogangoecmen@aol.com <mailto:dogangoecmen@aol.com> wrote:
> > Paul, the term "monarchical" seems to be not at place here. Monarchy
> > has to do with feudal society.
> >
> The problem is that I am using Aristotelian language here, and in that
> sense monarchic is correct, and does not depend on feudalism since
> although feudal states were monarchic, they are not the only monarchic
> states.
>
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