Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Democracy is preferable to communism

Proportional representation is preferable not because voters are infallible but because government is worse. Democracy is better than its absence (where there is a government). Only statists like pr... anarchists prefer to have no state at all but of the statists those who prefer pr are those who prefer a smaller state. If there is a democratic state then it will be larger with fptp than with pr. Pr (like all democracy) reduces the size of the state. Some anarchists might perhaps be indifferent between different types of government such as communism and small-state Libertarianism and for them it is consistent to be indifferent between fptp and pr. For anarchists who distinguish between communism and small-state Libertarianism it is illogical for them to support fptp.

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