From: GERALD LEVY (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 20:29:15 EDT
> I think that this process that Gerry describes perfectly sumarises the undemocratic> nature of pyramidal elections. No system is more suited to dominance by a party elite> than this. The 'democracy' here is no more than it is in all electoral systems, a> means of legitimising an elite. Hi Paul C: So, the members of 12,000 battalions of Bolivarian socialists don't know what democracy looks like but you do? _That_ sounds elitist to me. > Here we see the same process that created the party> state of the Bolsheviks. No. Other parties and individuals have not been denied the right to be on the ballot in a general election. In solidarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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