Michael Harney wrote: >From: "Jim Sharkey" >> A forum I frequent has been having a discussion of how one >>would describe the political system of the United Federation of >>Planets. It seems to me to combine traits of two systems I >>generally don't think of as compatible, that is almost a sort of >>democratic communism. >Assuming that democracy and communism are oposites is false.
Note I said they've not compatible, which you agree with here: >Democracy is a system of government, whereas communism is an >economic model. The reason the two are usually incompatible is >because the people of a democracy generally don't trust the >government with un-checked power With that out of the way, what political/economic model do you feel most closely resembles the UFP? Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
