> the 'democratic'
> issues involved are not so clear to me as to some on this list who claim
> that limited terms are undemocratic by nature.
Paul Z:
No one on the list - that I can recall - made that claim.
The claim, rather, is that term limits are not inherently more
democratic and that whether one should advocate term limits
or not depends on (historical, class, and other) *context*.
We must recognize that there are inherent limitations of
*bourgeois* democracy but should not simply accept those
constitutional (and other) limitations. For example, factory
takeovers by workers and land seizures by landless peasants
and squatting are in most cases "illegal" but we should (in just
about all cases) support them. So are student occupations
(witness what happened to NYU students recently) and sit-down
strikes, but we should not allow demands for "law
and order" ( a traditional right-wing demand) to trump what
is desirable and necessary from a working-class perspective.
The working people should rule, not merely a piece of paper
written by those who sought to legitimize bourgeois rule and
exploitation.
In solidarity, Jerry
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