The political system is a multi-party workers’ democracy. MLs: But, isn’t that an oxymoron? Not exactly. The system gains some inspiration from pre-Stalin Soviet democracy. The workers join commune councils, and then choose a party. The parties exist to let the voters know which type of socialism the candidates stand for so the voters can make easier decisions. The people of the commune then choose one of the CC’s members to go to the Regional Council (or RC) where laws are made that cover the entire region. The leader of the party that’s currently in charge becomes the Regional Leader. (Remember, only workers can become leaders, so this is not a bourgeois “democracy”) The leaders of every region form the Provincial Council of Leaders. (PCoL) Regional councillors can also run to be in the Provincial People’s Council. (PPC), with the number of spots being the population of the region / 100,000. So, a region with 500,000 people gets 5 spots in the PPC. The people of the region then vote (using STV) on who goes to the PPC. The leader of the main party in the PPC is the Provincial Leader, who moves on to the Global Council of Leaders (GCoL). The GCoL members then can run to be in any of the Global Leadership Positions. The PPC members can also run to be in the Global People’s Council, with one GPC representative representing 1,000,000 people.

  • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
    2•3 years ago

    Some thoughts.

    Do you vote for people or for policies? In most systems, you vote for people then hope they will implement the policies they promised, but often they dont. In better policital systems you more often vote directly on policies.

    How many steps are there between your vote and power? If you vote for peter at the RC, and he votes for paul, and he votes for john … and upu the chain and eventually mark is elected to the GPC … it’s not very likely that mark will fight for the needs of the workers. He’s much more interested in the needs of the PPC members. So there’s a lot of scope for corruption where the GPC and PPC members to become an elite serving only each other and ignoring the workers.

      • @roastpotatothief@lemmy.ml
        3•3 years ago

        Okay I see now. The idea is more about restricting people who can run for the GC. Like how in conventional states, you have to be elected as MP before you can run for the office of PM.

        Normally local laws are made by a mayor, but in your system your local MP would automatically be the mayor. Which makes a lot of sense. But maybe there’s a good reason for having a seperate power structure. I don’t know. It’s an interesting point.