[BU] - Bundschuh

[Gryph]

Speaking for myself, I'm questioning whether they in fact are consistent. My issue is with Bundschuh-as-proposed, its tactics delineated in the original post, and its overall attitude toward power as indicated in your own. I'm not concerned with socialism, but rather with the regime that BU seeks to put into power. Please see my second-to-last post - I would be interested in BU's response.

Thanks much.

Sure. Remember that I'm just a member, so I can't officially speak for the faction, but I'll do my best.

Will BU step aside? If it is a legal party and loses elections, what then?

If it were up to me, yes - and whatever provisional constitution we drew up would demand that we step down after a certain time or event, and, ideally, whatever final constitution was approved by a duly-elected government would also require fair and frequent elections. Obviously, politics are fickle, and power corrupts - but this is a risk no matter what.

Gryph states "If we get far enough to be a legal party, people will be inclined to do as we ask, because in order to get that far, people will have to be inclined to do as we ask." A new dictatorship in place of the current one? I thought, even in socialist democracy (which this advocates) they would be doing what the people asked...

I think I may have been unclear. A revolution succeeds because the revolutionaries and the people, who have been politically mobilized and are aware of the issues at stake, are in concert, working towards the same purpose. If the revolution succeeds, it succeeds because the people agree with the revolutionaries. Therefore, what the revolutionaries want and what the people want are the same (in the short term), and if the revolutionaries set up a provisional system, then throw their support behind (or transform into) a political party, the people are almost guaranteed (in the short term) to support that party. It's not a question of obedience, one way or the other, but of unanimity.