• ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    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.

        • LamontCranston [any]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          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

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        edit-2
        2 years ago

        How are you going to get everyone to defend your new society without any coercion or leadership?

        • LamontCranston [any]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          you're going to coerce people to defend your new society?

          • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            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.