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),...
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."
See Sartre's essay: 'Voting: a trap for Fools'.
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),...
Good to see some smartening-up going on.
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."
Genuine politics is Agency in the World. Perverted politics, in the world as it is , is This against That.