Thread by @JoshuaBailey184

There is no good reason for a single-party state in 2024, especially in one that claims to be democratic or progressive

Single-party states stagnate due to lack of internal debate & no fear of losing power in elections, until people get so fed up unrest breaks out...
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https://twitter.com/3lfares/status/1953166486643818630

...which usually means a neoliberal or reactionary revolution that throws the baby out with the bathwater (Russia) or the state cracking down on protest & becoming even more totalitarian than the regime it overthrew (China)
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If there are certain goals that a revolutionary vanguard wants to preserve, they can be done so via the Constitution so that if the vanguard party does lose an election the gains of the revolution can't be overturned by a simple majority vote
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As I elaborated on another thread, a revolutionary movement must consider itself on a timer & prioritize the most essential changes it can achieve, rather than overwhelm itself trying to fix everything & achieving nothing
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https://x.com/JoshuaBailey184/status/1818915513554149809

If a vanguard party can focus on and achieve clear results, then they can earn a mandate at the ballot box to continue forward
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It is perfectly reasonable, during wartime and with sound evidence, to ban parties that are actively aiding the enemy, but...
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...Most smart democracies also require their officials to swear to uphold the laws & constitution as a requirement of office, which (in theory, at least) provides a legal means to dismiss them if they violate their oaths
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Even NE Syria's AANES, with PYD as its vanguard party, remains a multiparty government implementing a progressive, socialist, democratic system all while actively fending off Turkish invasion & Western pressure to submit to a new reactionary Islamist government in Damascus
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They did this by not simply implementing the most essential parts of their revolution into the party platform, but making them part of the social contract that members of all parties, PYD or not, can agree to swear to uphold
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In doing so they can build upon the successes they have achieved in the near-term, which in time can give them the popular legitimacy to pursue those positions which the public may not have previously trusted them to pursue
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