Re: RES: a trip to North Korea

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 04/22/00 12:49AM >>>
>The bourgeois media keeps telling us the Cuban CP is dictatorial too.
>
>CB

Isn't it? I had always thought that multi-party elections were not
Castro's forte...


((((((((

Multiple parties does not define non-dictatorship, and multiple parties does not
define democracy.

The fundamental principle of democracy , as in the first words of the U.S.
Constitution , "We, the People", is popular sovereignty. Cuba has more popular
sovereignty than the U.S.  Cuba is more of a democracy and less of a 
dictatorship than
the U.S. of A. , Gringos.

"Multiparty" elections are only non-dictatorial so far as they enhance popular
sovereignty somehow through the republican or representational principle , part 
of
which is elections.

Even the original U.S. ideologues were against a  multiple party system. They 
referred
to parties as factions. They even recognized that parties inevitably represented
different economic classes, and this was exactly why they were against a 
multiple
party/faction system, because they knew that the working classes would be 
rocking
their boat eventually if they had parties.


So, the U.S. developed a system of parties, but all representing the ruling 
class, the
bourgeoisie. This is a fake multiparty system. All the "parts" are not 
represented in
the "parties".  The biggest parts, the working classes, do not have their own
representatives. They must seek representation through bourgeois parties.

Anyway, multipartyism as practiced in the U.S. is not a key identifier of
non-dictatorship.


And beyond the fact that multiparty elections are minor, very non-essential 
aspect of
non-dictatorship, the elections system itself in the U.S. has long been (like 
forever
, but getting worse at an accelerated rate like the growth of the stock market) 
so
completely corrupted by $$$$$, ($$$$$$$ rules), that it is much more  a 
dictatorial
system itself, then one would think from its own PR for its great "freedom".  
The
dictatorship of the $$$$$$$'ed class is profoundly augmented by elections 
nowadays. It
gives a phony "democratic" endorsement to the U.S. $$$$$$$ elite's rule.

Easter was election day in Cuba.


Juan Miguel