On Thursday, January 1, 2015 9:28:31 PM UTC, Alberto G.Corona wrote: > > > > 2014-12-30 14:15 GMT+01:00 Bruno Marchal <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > > > On 29 Dec 2014, at 19:27, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > The Soviet union can be formally considered a "democracy". > > > > > I disagree. Democracy is when there are election, with secret vote, every > four or five years. It allows a formal opposition with some representation > is some parliament or equivalent. > > > The soviet union had elections and a other parties. It had a parliament . > At least in most of the comunist parties there were a "formal" opposition. > The constitution of the URSS was ok according to liberal standards. All > that you mentioned were meet as well as it is met by almost every modern > regime >
you are correct as usual. One of the earliest things I mentioned to Deutsch was whether he could demonstrate Popper's 'explanation' of the Western democratic idea as 'error correction' was capable of distinguishing the West from the soviet union. His answer was totally unsatisfactory and I told him so. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
