Charles charimgly represents a now prehistoric world where Lenin's views
represent "the" socialist position. or could be credibly quoted asa default
position. No longer of course. The correct answer to the question, what will
a socialist government look like? is this: in it, the workers will rule, and
they will decide the form of the government. They may prefer a republican
form with seperation of powers. In my humble bourgrois liberal way, I hope
they would. They may decide that what was good enough for Lenin will be good
enough for them. Charles, a Marxist-Leninist, would advocate that. But there
is no a priori answer. The correct answer is: it's up to them --jks
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>under a republican-socialist/marxist government with separate legislature,
>executive and judiciary, where each branch has expert staffs to study
>problems and solutions, who decides who gets what, when and where?
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>CB; Separate legislature, executive and judiciary is not the republican
>principle. It is the principle of separation of powers.
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>The republican principle is the representational principle. Decisions on
>public issues are made by representative bodies in socialism. See _The
>State and Revolution_.
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