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