<<I am not sure is which legal actions really help "the class struggle", and which get lost in debates about narrow bourgeois right...>>
Which is less a danger, if it even is a danger, IMO, than ceding the question to the ruling class. Valid, fraud- and coercion-free elections are a progressive issue. I don't see any contradiction here, or any reason why the Left should feel that vote fraud, even between two bourgeois parties, is of no interest. Unchecked ruling class lawlessness doesn't help the people; when the folks in charge don't feel constrained by even the minor legal restrictions imposed on their own actions, watch out.
<< As the microscope is applied to the US presidential election result, there is a lot of evidence that the electoral system tends to disadvantage the less socially successful strata of the population... >>
Of course. Uncorrected eyesight and a little class analysis are enough to show this obvious point. EVERY legal option open to the working class will be stacked against its interests. But when the people still try to use this system, based on what's available to them, why should they accept that they will not be afforded the protection of even the most basic bourgeois laws? Obvious flaws or no, Black people *died* for the right to vote in this country, after all, not too long ago. Why cede it?
<< caught in the narrow bourgeois concept of equal rights for equal individuals... >>
It's still an important and, yes, progressive concept for any legal system, which always have a certain level of idealism inherent to them. And, yes, I would hope a socialist society would have both laws and guarantees of individual rights. Improved on the present version, of course.
----Original Message Follows---- From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Why Gore will Win the Hand Recount Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 06:15:32 +0000
At 14:17 13/11/00 -0500, Michael Pollak wrote:
>I think both the Gore and Bush camps think the same thing. The Gore camp
>bases their certainty that they are going to win the hand count on of the
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