Re: Once more on you know what...

["Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky" <Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

En relación a Once more on you know what...,
el 15 Dec 00, a las 21:27, Gary MacLennan dijo:

> To argue that
> non-participation in elections automatically makes you ahead is truly an
> anarchist position.

Yes, I agree. I still cannot understand the position of the American Left on
this issue. The current American system seems to have been designed in order to
elliminate Tom Paine's "one man, one vote". Can't understand why don't they
struggle in order to impose the "one person, one vote" principle again.
American capitalism has developed in such a corporatist direction that the
basic ideas of their best bourgeois heritage have been betrayed. What are
American Leftists waiting to use this in their own benefit, for Marx's sake?

I got punched when I suggested that the Argentinean "mandatory voting" system
was more democratic than the American one. But I still keep stuck to the idea.
Mandatory voting makes it an obligation for the State to provide equality of
opportunities for every vote by every citizen, the country over. It is a
tradition stemming directly from the French Revolution, in fact.

Please enlighten me, American comrades... I admit that I am much of a
"blockhead" on thse issues, but maybe you can explain what is it that I do not
understand.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx