The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107860   Message #2240259
Posted By: Little Hawk
19-Jan-08 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich v. Texas
There's moral anarchy. And then there's social and political anarchy.

A society free of political parties is in a much better position to avoid moral anarchy than is a society in thrall to them...

Political and social anarchy is avoided simply by having a coherent sytem of just and fair laws in place, laws which have been worked out in a legislature, and by having the means to enforce them. That can all be achieved entirely without political parties, and it has been achieved in a great many past societies. Political parties are an arbitrary and relatively recent phenomenon in human political affairs...and their primary concern soon becomes to perpetuate and enlarge their own hold on power, not to work for democracy or justice or the common good.

The present ruling party structures would like us all to think that society cannot do without them. They lie bigtime. People (including those IN the party machines) believe that lie only because they are so accustomed to it.