In the second place, the proceedings of the body are not infrequently so stormy in character that for months at a time the essential principles of parliamentarism are hopelessly subverted.
Practical conditions within the kingdom, however, have never been favorable for the operation of parliamentarismin a normal manner.
One of the things we hoped to study was the question whether the Soviet system is really superior to Parliamentarism in this respect.
Lenin told me that he hopes to see a Labour Government in England, and would wish his supporters to work for it, but solely in order that the futility of Parliamentarism may be conclusively demonstrated to the British working man.
This is no more than a lying formula: Parliamentarism is the triumph of egoism--its highest expression.
The counter-revolutionary degeneration of parliamentarism finds its most perfect expression in the deification of democracy by the decaying theoreticians of the Second International.
The formal equality of all citizens as electors thereby only gives more open indication of the incapacity of democratic parliamentarism to settle the root questions of historical evolution.
For the Marxist, Lafargue, parliamentarism remains as long as the supremacy of the bourgeoisie remains.
In the Monarchy an aristocratic Parliamentarism won, and the Crown became a phantom.
The Compact changed the style of Yuean's rule from a nominal parliamentarism to presidential government, and legitimatized the dictatorship.
So in general one can say parliamentarism favors the population of the large towns as against that of the country.
