WHAT IS THE PCP POSITION WITH RESPECT TO ELECTIONS AND THE OLD BOURGEOIS DEMOCRACY?
About elections, Marx noted: “Every few years the oppressed are authorized to decide which members of the oppressor class will represent them and crush them in the parliament!” (from the document “Against Constitutional Illusions and for the State of New Democracy,” PCP Central Committee) This is still more valid when it comes to elections to ratify constitutional charters. Elections are but the regular order of government renewal in the bourgeois dictatorships in capitalist societies, even the most democratic ones imaginable, and are the normal method for their political development for the preservation and development of capitalism. In landlord-capitalist states, like those in Latin America – in those periods in which the norms of demo bourgeois system have been respected – “elections have only been an instrument of domination of the feudal landlord and big capitalists; whether in periodic renewals, as lately in Colombia, or to end a military government, as in Argentina or Chile.
