Wednesday 12 December 2012

The right are communists if they support fptp

Let's assume political interests fall roughly into two (familiar) categories: Left and Right and that those on the left are broadly supportive of government intervention in general and those on the right are opposed. Since we know that democracy is the means by which the electorate can hold the state to account and constrain the expansion of the state then it is clear that it is consistent for the left to have no objection to fptp. The right, on the other hand, have less reason to be supportive of fptp because if there is more democracy the state will be smaller. The only other possibility is that those on the right who reject pr in favour of fptp see themselves as anarchists who do not want any state at all. Since most people on the right are in favour of property rights which can only come from the state we can deduce that the real reason for the repudiation of pr by the right is that they are concerned at the problems democracy will cause the state. Democracy is a problem for the state which means the right are defending communism when they defend fptp or they are anarchists. Since the right are not anarchists by definition (anarchists have no affiliation) we can say that the right (if they oppose pr in favour of fptp) are in reality communists... whether they realise this or not.

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