Soviet view of American elections
Aug. 6th, 2008 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
porphyryFrom Morton Schwartz, "The 1964 Presidential Elections through Soviet Eyes," The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 4, (Dec., 1966), pp. 663-671:
"The 'real power' in this country is said to be concentrated in the hands of a small group of enormously powerful corporations. Deomocracy in America, therefore, is a sham. As Khrushchev himself declared in 1959, 'For them democracy is the opportunity to engage in glittering parlimentary oratory, to play at political deals among the parties, to set up a 'flowery screen' of free elections behind which capital is omnipotent and the workers are actually deprived of their rights.'"
The parlimentary oratory isn't even that glittering anymore.
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After today, off to see the remnant dwarf arctic plantlife of Little Egypt.
"The 'real power' in this country is said to be concentrated in the hands of a small group of enormously powerful corporations. Deomocracy in America, therefore, is a sham. As Khrushchev himself declared in 1959, 'For them democracy is the opportunity to engage in glittering parlimentary oratory, to play at political deals among the parties, to set up a 'flowery screen' of free elections behind which capital is omnipotent and the workers are actually deprived of their rights.'"
The parlimentary oratory isn't even that glittering anymore.
______________________
After today, off to see the remnant dwarf arctic plantlife of Little Egypt.
