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RE: [OPE] Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela internal ballot.

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> I think that this process that Gerry describes perfectly sumarises the undemocratic
> nature of pyramidal elections. No system is more suited to dominance by a party elite
> than this. The 'democracy' here is no more than it is in all electoral systems, a
> means of legitimising an elite.
 
 
 
Hi Paul C:
 
 
So, the members of 12,000 battalions of Bolivarian socialists don't
know what democracy looks like but you do? _That_ sounds
elitist to me.
 
 
> Here we see the same process that created the party
> state of the Bolsheviks.
 
 
No. Other parties and individuals have not been denied the right
to be on the ballot in a general election.  
 
 
In solidarity, Jerry

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