The discussions around the use of ‘sortition’ as a method of choosing delegates for the founding conference of Your Party in late November have brought this obscure question to some public attention. Whatever people think about it, this has arisen before in left wing thought. So we held an online discussion forum today on the subject as a one-off using CLR James essay “Every Cook Can Govern’ from 1956.
This is here: https://www.marxists.org/…/works/1956/06/every-cook.htm.
Here is the podcast of today’s discussion
