Goddamn it Jaguar I was eating!

Catwoman, no fear not I am not a Daily Mail reader...more a Guardian / other people's copies of the Mirror type:)

I know the experiment cant really be held up as a resounding success but doesnt the soviet premise sound like a decent stab at democracy? I mean the whole idea of Soviets, take it out of the context of the cold war, and just looking at the concept of local Soviets which then feed to a larger organisation which then feeds to another larger entity in such a way ensuring that tyhe least important floor sweeper is no longer unimportant in politics....That strikes me as deeply democratic...so why wasnt it embraced by the western world?

Because those who do more work and are better at it feel they should be rewarded for that.

Also, I learnt the hard way a long time ago never to read cellar while eating. The only place worse is slashdot.

i know a few folks who think the moon landing was fake.