Alternative Vote or Alternative Society?

Pick a card, any card... as the debate in advance of the 'Alternative Vote' referendum warms up, at least in the corridors of Westminster and the Capitalist media if nowhere else.  I'd like to share a different viewpoint in order to restore some sanity to the public discussion.

When a magician offers you a choice of cards, it doesn't matter how you decide to pick one, you'll always get the card they want you to.  It's the same with any joker who thinks that capitalism can be made to serve us all. Government is there to make sure that the unequal relations of capitalism are maintained.  Not because of some conspiracy but because any party in power finds itself confronted by the might of the tiny minority of people who own our society. It ends up ruling in their interests, rather than the vast majority who work for a living and provide them with their profit.

That's why in the financial crisis as profits decline we're being made to pay with lost jobs and wage cuts.  And you're simply being asked to choose a new way of electing governments that will continue to attack you. It's something that matters a lot to politicians, because it decides how many of them and their mates get the good jobs - the ones with real power and palm greasing possibility.

What matters more is what we use our vote for...

If we vote for more rulers and the continued ownership of the world by a handful of people then it doesn't really matter how politicians share the spoils. But if the workers of the world used the vote to positively reject false choices we will be further on the road towards a truly democratic society.

If we vote to make the wealth of the world common property in which we all have an equal say, then we can finally have what Ghost of a Ne'er do Well calls Socialism - on a world scale. We can put an end to minority rule, and we can organise our common affairs in our own interest.

That's why the real choice before you this May isn't AV or First Past the Post, but choosing to reject class based society root and branch.

To find out more have a look here:  http://www.spgb.org.uk/