Ironically, some jammers put up fake newspaper posters in Geneva last night, with the headline: "Le criminel c'est l'électeur", or The criminal is the voter.
The reality is disarmingly plain: the traditional parties in Switzerland are basically powerless against the far-right. They're tactically and strategically off the pace, and they're ideologically wooden and woolly at the same time. They neither inspire nor inflame. Wheeze is more their thing, Much the same can be said of trad. parties across Europe. The centre is being pulled further and further to the right, and the far-right holds the initiative. The most successful variants are those able to combine breathless, base populism with technocratic features. The problem's not the voting system, it's the failure of trad. establishment parties to build sufficient consent not only against reaction, but for a humane alternative.
On 29 Nov 2010, at 10:08 AM, Mark Bennett wrote:
> What's the choice? Vanguardism?
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
>> wrote:
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>> And further proof, if any is needed, that naive calls for more
>> "direct
>> democracy" cannot be a demand of any real left. Calls for "direct
>> democracy"
>> under capitalist conditions means just one thing: mob rule.
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>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11857438?print=true
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>> "Swiss voters have accepted a referendum proposal for the automatic
>> expulsion
>> of non-Swiss citizens for certain crimes, an exit poll suggests."
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