En relaci�n a [PEN-L:531] now you know,
el 11 Aug 00, a las 10:51, Charles Brown dijo:
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> CB: This is not a very deep point. What about the British and other
> monoarchies ? There are all kinds of cults of personality in
> non-fascist bourgeois countries and systems.
Worse yet, the cult to great personalities in Western countries is a
matter of fact. Partly, we should think of the Great Leaders during
extreme national stress (De Gaulle, but also Churchill -whose
political figure sometimes strikes me as a kind of Very British
Strong Man-, Roosevelt... both Teddy and FDR). This is not very
visible in the West because there is another, more important,
structurally basic, cult to Personality. This is the Cult of
Commodity, the truly Only Personality that capitalist society is
built upon. That people who worship commodities scream because other
people worship Great Leaders makes me laugh.
This point clarified away (Brad will probably say "darkened in"), I
agree in that the so-called Cult to Personality in socialist
countries is nefarious, due to very different reasons, however.
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> --the common desire for the "coordination" of all forms of what
> we are now supposed to call "civil society"
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> CB: This is factually false, There is no evidence of such a common
> desire. Civil society is highly coordinated in the U.S. and Western
> Europe.
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The whole of social and civil life in those societies is MORE THAN
coordinated by the mercantile relationship, only that this
relationship becomes mystified by the form of commodity and the
supposedly "rational (in the sense of natural)" laws of "market". By
the way, did you meet Mr or Mrs Market any time?
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> --the common rejection of the ideas of an independent judicary
The tripartite arrangement of power was OVERTLY devised by
Montesquieu and the Illuminists to abort the possibility that popular
will be clearly expressed by the structures of power. This said, it
is always better to have a mock of "rational rule" than the true face
of class politics such as we have in capitalist Latin America (say,
people such as Videla, Castillo Armas and other heroes of Western
Democracy)
N�stor Miguel Gorojovsky
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