Electoral False Choices or False Options

[Dennis R Redmond]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Nathan Newman wrote:

> provincial thing in the world by their nature.  Running an electoral
> strategy based on proportional representation in a country that lacks it is
> not rejecting provincialism, it's just being suicidal.

Hardly. You practice what you preach, create a culture of democrcy
wherever you are (union, NGO, workplace, etc.), educate people on the
merits of a PR system, of publicly-funded elections, try to get these
introduced at the local level, achieve a critical mass, etc. Same is true
for all the other parts of a Left project -- chopping the military down to
size, funding education, creating a universal health insurance system.
Local activism needs global cognitions, because that's how the total
system works: as a totality. Sony, Daimler and Nokia already think
globally and act globally; those who want to resist, contest or otherwise
restrict their rule must do so, too. 

-- Dennis