Hi
Bruce,
My
response/counter questions follows ***
Is democracy possible with
capitalism? *** Is Switzerland
democratic?
Can socialism be democratic?
*** Seems to be the best form for the benefit of the community
What do
we need to do? *** Community organisations to be
set up along DD principles. Set up DD organisations in each area and have
members join established political parties to change from within the current
political system
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090601/ *** Interesting site
Regards
Jim
Powell
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:09 AM, <Jim Powell>
wrote:
Hi Parrhesia,
Thanks for the email.
It is a
good description to say that Democracy is a slippery word.
Throughout the
world democracy can best be described as a 5 year
dictatorship where the term
of office is 5 years.
Switzerland has Direct Democracy at all levels of
government. Each of the
Cantons and municipalities have differing levels of
Direct Democracy. Bottom
of the list for level of democracy would be a
dictatorship
Has anyone got a system to assess level of democracy? Is
there an
organisation that carries this out?
Regards
Jim Powell
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Hammer
Sent: 02 Jun
2009 02:48 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject: RE: [WDDM] Democracy
rating
What do you mean by "Level of democracy"? What would a 100%
democracy be?
Democracy is a slippery
word.
Parrhesia
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Powell
Sent: Monday,
June 01, 2009 4:01 AM
To: wddm@world-wide-democracy.net
Subject:
[WDDM] Democracy rating
Hi All,
Is there a method where the level
of democracy in a country can be measured
or is there an organisation that
does this?
Is there a table where countries are ranked? I would expect
that Switzerland
would be close to the top and Mynamar (Burma) would be close
to the bottom.
Regards
Jim
Powell