Separation Of Powers Is A Sham, Disguising The Unity Of Bourgeois Class Oppression

[Rakhmetov]

All that bullshit one learns in school about separation of powers and three co-equal branches of the federal and state government. What a bunch of shit. Only fools and dullards believe in such drivel.

[El Rojo]

im trying to deconstruct it in an essay atm. essential it boils down to this: when there is private property there is no democracy. you can separate yr powers as many times as you want and it wont do shit

[KurtFF8]

In what sense is it a sham? There have been real consequences for the separation of state powers in the United States throughout history. Look at many things from the right of Women to vote, Civil Rights, Workers' Rights, etc. etc. There are countless cases of when the Supreme Court has ruled against laws passed by Congress.

The separation of powers can, on the other hand, be seen as a series of "veto points" for progressive legislation as well. For example that's why National Health Care is difficult: the congressional system requires too much compromise, and the executive and judicial branches can also interfere.

This contrasts with, for example, the UK which doesn't really have this separation of powers. The Parliament is "all powerful" in a sense (including even appointing the executive, which is of course also the case in Socialist Cuba).

These different forms of government have had real effects on the development of things like the Western Welfare state in the different nations which have real consequences for class struggle (giving it different forms to take shape).

The idea that "it's all the same because the capitalist class is in power" is like saying that because almost the whole world is capitalist and is ruled by a capitalist class, that there is no difference between these capitalist countries. This should obviously be seen as untrue.