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Emma Goldman said that, a well renowned Anarchist.


Im with you guys on the idea that we probably shouldn't vote because we wont see any change.

However as communists we cannot boycott voting on the basis that they are "bourgeoisie" or undemocratic. It makes us look like Ultra-leftists (like the Anarchists) and alienates us from the working class. We need to understand that we need to embed ourselves into the working class in order to spark revolutionary action and that wont happen if there saying "oh that's just like a communist, not voting, how could you get anymore un-American?"

When you're given 2 options and neither is in favour of you, we use to say "Plague or Cholera" (Swedish: Pest eller Kolera)

After that you choose the third option, that you figure out yourself.

I'd have to disagree with Emma Goldman right there, voting does get things done. It can be an act of protest, as with bourgeois capitalist republics for the proletariat to fire the officials they don't like and put someone there more favourable to their interests as a class. In a non-governmental organization e.g. The CPUSA, democratic centralism proves how effective voting really can be. Every decision has to go to a vote as do positions of leadership at the National Convention and once those choices are voted on in a majority the actions or elections follow the voting. On the Electoral College, it's an anti-Democratic Monster. The process of it was designed against the will of the people in order to subvert it. It was believed that the people could elect a demagogue and the Congress would have more 'enlighted' minds and render the people's will null and void. In my mind such a dictatorial college should be abolished outright.

then I vote for the "dictatorship of the proletariat" wink