Before you go all Marx on me, yes yes I know about utopian socialism vs scientific socialism, but its ok to have fun once in a while.

This is what my ideal leftist government looks like.

  1. Unicameral legislature. No separate elections for executive. Ranked-choice voting.

  2. Executive is formed from the directly elected legislators through voting among legislators.

  3. 1:10,000 elector-electee ratio at the state level and 1:100,000 at the federal level.

  4. All state and federal reps can be recalled by an 80% no-confidence vote. This vote doesn't need to be initiated by the majority, you just go to your local govt office and submit a form of no-confidence, and once the threshold is reached, the elected rep is sacked.

  5. No head of state, either at state level or federal level. This means no President, no Governors, no Speakers etc.

  6. Anything in the constitution can be repealed, amended or added with simple 60% majority.

  7. No more national-level courts. State-level judges are appointed only for 5 year terms. Judges have zero power to nullify laws.

  8. The standing army is abolished and military duties are assigned to all adults.

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    yours is pretty good. i haven' t written my "fantasy constitution" yet because i'm still a baby marxist and obsessed with synthesizing left ideas from all over the spectrum into some system for the future.

    absolute MUSTs are good representative to citizen ratio with no more then 2 layers. a massive legislative body where each rep is like for 100 people is doable with today's tech. maybe an actual "in person" session once a year, but voting takes place using telepresence all year.

    i like your recall system. strong recall system is what should set any socialist system apart from shitty bougoise "democracy" and i would allow for national service or military service be compulsory but obviously that would be temporary until FALSAC.

    small standing security force mostly for naval and air assets since they are the modern first defense response.

    5 is interesting. 6 is good too but until capitalism is crushed globally there would have to be something to safeguard outside influence from causing a constitutional convention to restore capitalism.