AK-1917
21st May 2008, 16:12
One question I've been debating recently is the place of parties in socialism. Obviously it is necessary to have a vanguard party of the working class, but should we not allow other parties to exist or at least sub-divide the party into different, established factions?
In my opinion no. A single party is more effective. Many parties create a bureacracy which obviously must never exist if we hope to create a controlled economy. A single party allows for more direct democracy. You would not need pointless positions that exist in bipartisan on polypartisan systems like floor leaders, speakers, presidients, whips, chairmen, etc.
Also, you would focus the purpose of goverment. Far too often multi party politics degrade into becoming garbage heaps of sectarianism, petty debates, and not in any way actual plan or platform. Take for example Jim Traficant, who in the US House of Representatives was in 2000 stripped of his party position for voting for Dennis Hastert as House Speaker. In a one party system, would not actual factions, so long as they are de facto, be defined by stated ideology and real beliefs, not your ablility to navigate partisan programming?
And obviously there is the old question of dissent. I personally am for dissent (as leftists, are not we all?) and see no way in which a one party state limits that. Dissent of course should be open and as I explained above, is it possible that partisan politics limits dissent?
In my opinion no. A single party is more effective. Many parties create a bureacracy which obviously must never exist if we hope to create a controlled economy. A single party allows for more direct democracy. You would not need pointless positions that exist in bipartisan on polypartisan systems like floor leaders, speakers, presidients, whips, chairmen, etc.
Also, you would focus the purpose of goverment. Far too often multi party politics degrade into becoming garbage heaps of sectarianism, petty debates, and not in any way actual plan or platform. Take for example Jim Traficant, who in the US House of Representatives was in 2000 stripped of his party position for voting for Dennis Hastert as House Speaker. In a one party system, would not actual factions, so long as they are de facto, be defined by stated ideology and real beliefs, not your ablility to navigate partisan programming?
And obviously there is the old question of dissent. I personally am for dissent (as leftists, are not we all?) and see no way in which a one party state limits that. Dissent of course should be open and as I explained above, is it possible that partisan politics limits dissent?