From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2008 - 05:36:26 EDT
Alejandro Agafonow wrote: > > Political parties are necessary because a direct democracy is > impossible in a large society. The problem here is that there are not > democratic mechanisms inside the Venezuelan socialist party (Of > course, you don’t have it also inside Popular Party, the conservative > party of Spain). > > > > By themselves, mechanisms like “consultation with battalion members” > and “congress delegates propositions” that Levy referred to are > doubtfully democratic, but when you practice them in Iberoamerica > (Latin-American, Portugal and Spain), their transparency becomes even > doubtful. > > > > Unfortunately we have in these countries a corporative culture that > subordinate merit and other criteria of justice to cronyism, > plutocracy and patronage. Even Spain, despite its economic and > democratic advancements thanks to European Union, has many social > institutions corrupted by these practices. > > > > And you can not expect but an increase of this corruption in Venezuela > whose polyarchal institutions, that where a case of study in the 70’s > and 80’s due to its exceptionalism, have been erased by Chavism. > > > What makes you think that direct democracy is impossible in a large society? I think you are underestimating the potential of information technology. //Dave Z _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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