How is it revolutionary defeatism to hope for a collapse of the current order?
I guess it depends on where you reside in relation to the core
Accelerationism is more about rapid technological progress
Americans will acknowledge gerrymandering and paying off politicians by the rich are HUGE problems and in the same breath say we have the best most democratic system there ever was or will be.
Acktually this is the government the founding fathers wanted. Democratic gridlock ensures stability as only the
popular willwill of the donors shall be done.I mean this is literally true. Keeping the "mob" away from influencing politics except on the long term was a high priority for the drafters of the constitution. That why it fucking sucks and should be thrown into the dustbin of history
Damn shame you're not in any of the statewide offices or judicial seats.
like maybe stop using a election system that is so eldritch that i have to roll for sanity every time i try to understand it
I remember reading something once about something growing from barrels of something or other.
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with a dictatorship of the proletariat
and who would make up this dictatorship? too many people I have met are either too lazy or too authoritarian for the job
Since we don't know you or them we can't really trust your assessment of their character or take the sample of people you have met as representative of the working class.
The working class would be the politically enfranchised class. Working people would have the power while capitalists would not, in short. The method of accomplishing this is widely discussed but the soviets did it with... soviets (workers councils). Working people would elect from themselves representatives to local/factory/village councils, who would then elect a representative from themselves to the regional council and then from them one to a national council. The structure of the government is meant to give power directly to working people at the level of the factory and the kolkhoz. Capitalists would be denied their usual tricks as they would be disenfranchised as much as structurally possible.
Lenin sent in the military to break up worker councils.
Working people would elect from themselves representatives to local/factory/village councils, who would then elect a representative from themselves to the regional council and then from them one to a national council.
So we would not be directly electing people to these higher levels?
If we do it the way the USSR did it and China does it, then no. But I personally don't think that their way of doing it is the best way to do it - yes your power should be based in grassroots democratic practice ie worker's councils, yes you should aim to have a whole-process people's democracy where every decision made by elected representatives is informed by constantly polling the masses, but "nesting" elections within other elections in this way I think makes the leadership of the government too stagnant. The system should be explicitly designed so that leaders can't "consolidate power", as Xi Jinping did at the last Party Congress.
term limits, part time, council instead of a single person, randomly selected rather than elected (we accept it for juries afterall) - there are plenty of alternatives for filling executive positions
How are you going to get everyone to defend your new society without any coercion or leadership?
If it's under threat? Absolutely.
And it will be under threat. The people you want to wrest control away from have already killed tens of millions of people. They will do literally anything to maintain and regain their power. The stakes are far too high to allow for people who don't feel like defending the new world.
Damn that's crazy! And sure we could - we could also recall them at any time with a national referendum. I think that the decision of when to initiate such an election/referendum should be left up to the soviets.
In terms of immediate remedies, a state supreme court seat is up for election in April, and if the Democrats win it it will knock off the reactionary majority and allow the Dems to challenge and overturn the gerrymandered map. I actually strongly urge any Wisconsinites here to take part in that election, it can single-handedly break the reactionary stranglehold on the state government.
they always seem to find some way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory or delay and bloviate until the next term
The best part is at the same time the Supreme Court is expanding state’s rights so illegitimate minority rule is in control of medical access like abortion
It'll never happen, but I'd say the most "democratic" way to do it would be that legislatures are voted on by party rather than by an individual, and each party is allocated seats based on the proportion of the vote. Geographic representation is almost 50 years out of date now.
I think the Israeli Knesset is actually a really good example of how to very logically structure a government. The legislature is the supreme body which elects every other position, and votes are proportional and party-based. This kind of system produces a unified government which acts in harmony to advance the will of the voting citizens. In the case of Israel, it accurately reflects the voting citizen's desire for genocidal colonialism, and makes sure to strip voting rights from all the undesirables who might otherwise want to build a better society.
