Re: [Marxism] Venezuela

[David Picón Álvarez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Erik Toren" <ectoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Which "presidentialist" system has a president w/o power?

I'm not sure I follow you here. Presidentialist systems like those in the US 
and many Latin American countries concentrate the chief of state and the 
chief of government in a single person, the president. So sure they have 
presidents with very wide powers. I was comparing them to parlaimentary 
monarchies or republics though, and saying that a parliamentary monarchy 
doesn't seem to me to be any different from a presidentialist system in 
practice, since the chief of state has no power, so all the power is 
concentrated likewise in the president/prime minister (ok, and the 
parliament). Cases of parliamentary republics might be different though, 
since it is possible that in them the chief of state has actual powers of 
their own.

> I hope one day a republican movement will sweep away the last vestiges
> of feudalism in Europe.

So do I, but I don't see it happening in this decade, or even perhaps in my 
lifetime.

--David.

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