enacting election reforms

[admice]

Sorry, 'nother question and I may be  misunderstanding your position, but

If you don't advocate for and work toward enacting election reforms, how do you expect to get socialists elected? If there are any legitimate democracies, which I don't know of, there are only a handful IMO.

 

Thanks

[alanjjohnstone]

Our position recognises the failings and weaknesses of existing democractic procedures. Most countries in the world do have the ballot and constitutions that allow the people to choose representatives in Parliament, not always  first-pass-the post, like our own , or America's electoral college. Some have proportional and transferable voting methods.  The SPGB was set up in 1904 before women had the vote and when many men because of qualification rules still did not have the vote. Nevertheless, the numbers of workers who could vote could give them class power to capture the State.  Our case is that we will endeavour to use an effective majority to achieve socialism which does not necessarily mean a numerical majority.  My personal blog's post may be of interest to you. http://mailstrom.blogspot.com/2011/05/vote-as-weapon.html

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