The question wasn’t which political system you approve.
The question was whether you think the outcome of more atheists in Europe was worth the cost incurred during the efforts of the socialist governments to suppress religion and promote atheism.
I’m living in a country in which the people who want socialism who had the most political power favor democratic socialism over communism.
In Germany you had a split in the left. One half thought that you need a revolution to achieve the goal of socialism and the other half thought that you can work within the democratic institutions to achieve the goal of socialism.
I haven’t meet any young earth creationists in Berlin or for that matter people who doubt the theory of evolution so I’m completely happen with the state of affairs where I live. No catholics bombing protestants either.
On the other hand I don’t approve of the kind of policies that exist in France or Soviet Russia.
I’m not familiar enough with Swedish policies to tell you whether I approve of them.
This is a bit of a sideline, but if you’re talking about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, I think modeling it as a religious conflict is the wrong way to go. The impression I get is more of religion as a shibboleth for cultural and political ties than the other way around.
There advocated way of getting there wasn’t the “way through the institutions” but “revolution”. There are Marxist arguments that revolution is the only way and that it’s not possible to change the system from the inside.
According to our university constitution students are supposed to vote in an election for a 5 person group to represent the body of students of a university department. At our university the students of the political science department don’t like this.
The elected 5-person body doesn’t constitute itself and the decisions are rather supposed to make by a self governed open body in which everyone who wants can speak and that makes decisions via “consensus”.
I don’t see myself in that tradition or have any loyalty to that fraction. As far as current affairs go, I would want liquid democracy for those student institutions with some elected persons taken representative roles and not “consensus” style democracy.
The question wasn’t which political system you approve.
The question was whether you think the outcome of more atheists in Europe was worth the cost incurred during the efforts of the socialist governments to suppress religion and promote atheism.
I’m living in a country in which the people who want socialism who had the most political power favor democratic socialism over communism.
In Germany you had a split in the left. One half thought that you need a revolution to achieve the goal of socialism and the other half thought that you can work within the democratic institutions to achieve the goal of socialism.
I haven’t meet any young earth creationists in Berlin or for that matter people who doubt the theory of evolution so I’m completely happen with the state of affairs where I live. No catholics bombing protestants either.
On the other hand I don’t approve of the kind of policies that exist in France or Soviet Russia. I’m not familiar enough with Swedish policies to tell you whether I approve of them.
This is a bit of a sideline, but if you’re talking about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, I think modeling it as a religious conflict is the wrong way to go. The impression I get is more of religion as a shibboleth for cultural and political ties than the other way around.
Lucky you X-D
Right. Instead you had the Baader-Meinhof gang. They wanted socialism, too, didn’t they?
There advocated way of getting there wasn’t the “way through the institutions” but “revolution”. There are Marxist arguments that revolution is the only way and that it’s not possible to change the system from the inside.
According to our university constitution students are supposed to vote in an election for a 5 person group to represent the body of students of a university department. At our university the students of the political science department don’t like this.
The elected 5-person body doesn’t constitute itself and the decisions are rather supposed to make by a self governed open body in which everyone who wants can speak and that makes decisions via “consensus”.
I don’t see myself in that tradition or have any loyalty to that fraction. As far as current affairs go, I would want liquid democracy for those student institutions with some elected persons taken representative roles and not “consensus” style democracy.