From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On 03/30/2020 08:02 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   > To have a system of Council Government¹ requires a people who exhibit   
   > a minimum of behavioral standards. It could be argued that we do not   
   > have a democratic society with a free market under reasonable law,   
   > because the behavior of people is insufficient to support such a system.   
   > If it did, we should be there already. An attempt in Russia and Germany   
   > in 1917 failed, probably for a variety of reasons, one of which could   
   > have been insufficient time and training of the people involved.   
      
   Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's 'Das Dritte Reich' has some insights on   
   the failure of the German Revolution. Note that the book was written in   
   1923, long before das dritte Reich became a reality.   
      
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