cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43729189
Stolen from r/marxism_memes
1936: The Rights the U.S. Still Won’t Guarantee - Lady Izdihar (3 min 51 sex)
Constitution of the Soviet Union - 8th All-Union Congress of Soviets
This Soviet World / (Audiobook) - Anna Louise Strong (1936)
If they’re opposed to free elections and secret ballots—as you yourself point out—maybe they don’t in fact represent the will of the people?
The soviets did have secret ballots, and candidates were chosen by consensus building and approval voting. Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan is a great book to describe in detail the system the soviets used for democracy.
Then what’s the problem with item 1 above?
The fact that they wanted to make it so that the bolsheviks could not be voted for, and then immediately elect non-bolsheviks.
That’s not what item 1 says
Correct, item 1 does not exist in a vacuum. The other items were largely about cutting the bolsheviks out of the red army and soviets, dissolving the bolsheviks as a political entity.
Do you mean item 10, that calls for soldiers to elect their officers, and workers to elect local police, as needed, rather than having it imposed on them without their consent?