Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 05:51:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Who would you vote for?


Rahul Mahajan wrote:

> merely a struggle for power. The old constitution was clearly nothing like
> that of a bourgeois democracy,

There was nothing [bourgeois] undemocratic per se about the old
constitution.

> and the members of the parliament were
> concerned that they would never retain their positions of power if the
> choice was up to the people.

I disagree. They were also concerned about having a autocratic government
in which exclusive power rested with the executive and in which the
legislative could be dismissed at [the president's] will.

> The old constitution, you will note, was
> also not written or approved by a constitutional convention, so defending
> it could hardly be interpreted as defending bourgeois democracy.

The old constitution was written before the dissolution of the USSR. A
defense of democratic and constitutional rights, though, could be
interpreted as a defense of [bourgeois] democracy.

Jerry



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