From:	 Jim Monaghan [jbm7@tutor.open.ac.uk]
To:	 marxism@lists.panix.com
Date:	 Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:58:51 +0100
Subject: Re: The core of the working class program

I think democracy is the key to the functioning of any society, or even
group. Syncopants and crawlers will ensure that any wise leader will go
wrong eventually.Democracy is the space for the little child to cry out
"the emperor has no clothes"

Louis would be familar with a Fourth International internal document
written partly by Mandel attempting to put substance on this question.
Alas, a macho sentiment that identifies democracy with bourgeois
democracy ( whic has it`s points look at countries which do not have a
semblance of it) has infected the Left, not just the Stalinist sections

Jim Monaghan

ps I am still a Cannonite, mainly in opposition to the ineffectual Left