Re: [Marxism] The death of EFCA

[Sam B <sam.b.ann.arbor@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> http://www.counterpunch.com/macaray05222009.html
> Democrats Betray Labor
> Card Check is Pronouced Dead
>
> By DAVID MACARAY

> There was nothing “anti-democratic” about it.  Clearly, it was “public,”
> rather than “secret,” but how is that anti-democratic?  Legislators use
> nay and yea votes on the floor of Congress hundreds of times a year, and
> a show of hands is used everywhere—from city councils to school boards
> to company boards of directors.  How is card check “anti-democratic”?

It is anti-democratic in the same sense that  elections in first tier
of the Cuban system are antidemocratic. You are voting in public,
which means that members of the local Committee of the Defense  of the
Revolution are able to watch which way you voted. If members of your
local committee of  the Defense  of the Revolution are not principled,
then they could potentially make your life miserable once they see
that you did not vote for a candidate favored by the Party.

You mention that there are open votes in Congress. But that is a
necessary evil, because constituents need to know which way their
representatives voted.  If there were secret votes in Congress, then
more Congresspeople could have gone against the recommendations of
lobbying groups, of AIPAC, etc.

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