Re: [Marxism] Numbers question

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, okay... I did not understand this properly, because I thought that, by 
registering with a US electoral committee, you actually affiliated formally 
with a party, and that apart from this, you might still have some measures of 
the active political participation in parties of some sort. To me the American 
idea of democracy increasingly seems really weird  - it is as if the 20th 
century never happened. In the countries where I've lived, you have 
representative democracy, proportional representation and so on, you have laws 
requiring political accountability by parties, and state subsidisation of 
party-political activity to some extent. Therefore, all political tendencies 
with a minimum level of support have a realistic chance of a voice in 
government, and the parliamentary representation must reasonably reflect the 
actual distribution of votes cast.

J.

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