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George McFetridge's avatar

See Sartre's essay: 'Voting: a trap for Fools'.

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Nobody's avatar

If elections could really change the situation, they would be banned immediately.

As a side note: Recently, several elections have been annulled, like in Gabon (2023), Turkey (2019, 2020), Mali (2020), South Sudan (2015), Nigeria (2019), Venezuela (2018),...

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George McFetridge's avatar

Good to see some smartening-up going on.

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JohnOnKaui's avatar

Over my head:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/1973/elections.htm

This quote is rather ominous, and one I believe we are on our way to experiencing.

"In fact, they had fallen into a contradiction which could only be resolved by civil war, since the function of civil war was to defuse this contradiction."

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George McFetridge's avatar

Genuine politics is Agency in the World. Perverted politics, in the world as it is , is This against That.

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