I believe that the best way we can achieve proportional representation which I think would benefit us more is to lobby for it either in Congress or Senate. Our CPUSA lobbyists should be qualified lawyers adept in subjects like constitutional law or political law. If JPC can achieve its status as the third most numerous, we too in the CPUSA can do it. Hand in hand with the Democrats which has been known to be dumping grounds of agents-of-influence for Cuba and Venezuela we can rekindle that kind of passion that Chekists and the Bolsheviks had when they dominated the Russian Parliament on October 1917. Long live the CPUSA! Long live Sam Webb!!
> >
> > Does the CPUSA see a movement for proportional
> > representation as a means to legally gain influence? It
> > seems to me that as long as the representative system is
> > unproportional, there is no realistic way for a party
> like
> > the CPUSA to have any governmental influence. A movement
> for
> > a proportional elective system is one that could unite
> both
> > left and right outside the two party system and could be
> > led by both the Greens and the Libertarians and Reform
> > Parties. On the local levels the only CPUSA elected were
> > elected under the system. Thanks tot he parliamentary
> > system even in a conservative country like Japan, the
> 3rd
> > largest party is the JCP.
> >
> > Please let me know your thoughts on the topic.
> > Robert,
>
> I agree with you completely and have raised the issue
> numerous times. And many agree with me. The question is
> to develop a policy and a strategy to build support for
> such a program, which has existed only in a very limited
> way in the U.S., in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s
> when it was instrumental in leading to the election of
> American Labor Party candidates and also Ben Davis and
> Peter Caccione, two open CPUSA members(the system was
> abolished in the early cold war era in part to oust those
> two councilmen, although the machine Democrats had always
> opposed it.)
> This is certainly a very important issue that, along with
> serious limitation on the use of money in elections and
> also access to media in elections is essential to serious
> political change in the U.S.
> Norman Markowitz
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