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Mr. Cole thinks that the uninstructed voter "waives his right to
vote." From this it follows that the votes of the instructed reveal
their interest, and their interest defines the function. [Footnote:
_Cf._ Ch. XVIII of this book. "Since everybody was assumed to be
interested enough in important affairs, only those affairs came to
seem important in which everybody was interested."] "Brown, Jones, and
Robinson must therefore have, not one vote each, but as many different
functional votes as there are different questions calling for
associative action in which they are interested." [Footnote: _Guild
Socialism,_ p. 24. ] I am considerably in doubt whether Mr. Cole
thinks that Brown, Jones and Robinson should qualify in any election
where they assert that they are interested, or that somebody else, not
named, picks the functions in which they are entitled to be
interested. If I were asked to say what I believe Mr. Cole thinks, it
would be that he has smoothed over the difficulty by the enormously
strange assumption that it is the uninstructed voter who waives his
right to vote; and has concluded that whether functional voting is
arranged by a higher power, or "from below" on the principle that a
man may vote when it interests him to vote, only the instructed will
be voting anyway, and therefore the institution will work.
But there are two kinds of uninstructed voter.
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