Having witnessed the US presidency being rorted, in my own country electoral borders changed, jerrymanders and thousands of other corrupt manipulations, we on the left have nothing concrete to say.
Of course no system can exclude the effects of real power, but the struggle to change the obvious flaws creates counter-powers and this has been wholly neglected.
There are reforms such as multiple representative electorates, preferential and compulsory voting, disenfranchising companies from bribing parties that could be raised as immediate demands. But we are silent on them.
However, ask yourself, how can international socialism derive except through changes forced on states around the world, and how can this force be mustered except through specific concrete objectives. What state in the world would not have broadly similar contradictions and broadly similar solutions to such problems?
Changing the face of democracy does not in itself deliver proletarian power, but I cannot see in a modern state how that power can be successful without struggling to redefine in class terms what constitutes democracy - one part of this is raising simple arguable reforms for a better democratic constitution.
Greg Schofield Perth Australia