Quote Originally Posted by Marshmallow Marshall View Post
Putin is anything but a democratic leader, first of all lol... He's probably the best modern example of a Realpolitik adept leader, and he does his job really well if you count Russia's position. Don't get me wrong, I would not want to live in Russia at all lol... but it's still 1: better than the Soviet Union (not sooo much, but still a bit lol) and 2: coherent with Russian history and position. Rough translation of the words of a French politician, Maurice Duverger, in some book : We chose freedom, Russians chose faith. Maybe should we take a look at their political system with their own eyes, and not our Western ones.


So you have a trembling potato as your spirit animal? I feel sorry for you :P
All of this was more like political opinions, though, so I'm going back to the topic on a more objective tone.

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As a reply to Huey's:

Pretty much, with capitalist systems. I think that's the answer with most current democracies.

What you propose is interesting. The separation of all powers, but their high strenght in their domains is an illusion, though, because whoever control economy has the actual power, making the National Parliament a powerless Assembly (consultative). The Head of State being ceremonial, there is no "veto" in your idea. The Guilds would have absolute power, which would be actually a weird form of communism without any democracy. I'm not an expert in politics, but I believe a country of reasonable size under that system would become very similar to the Soviet Union, with a slight addition of elections. The "Guilds" are the Party, only elected by very small democratic zones; beyond those small zones that you would limit to towns, there is no real democracy, and the people's opinion would not really matter.

In short : "Hard socialism" like this is not representative of the people's will. Personally, I am for more socialism, but not for what could be described as "soft communism". Now, if you think that the government not being representative of the people is alright, that's another topic (that you may discuss if you want to).
Not atall, I should of made it clearer that some subjects such as taxation is split between the national parliament and the Guild Structure, The National Parliament is in charge with Immigration law, Military issues, Militia issues, social issues and Foreign Policy. The economy is functioning by the worker, no party structure would exist under the guilds, it would be individual workers who would form the economy.

Also as i stated their would be binding national Referenda, local referenda and the party system would exist at the Local and National levels, just not at an economic level.
Furthermore as no corporations exist, it is individual Co-Ops then no one sector can hold aboslute power, their is no control of the economy by one force, it is a collective effort.