People tell me that because I don’t vote I don’t have a right to complain. I think the opposite: those who vote play the game (legitimise the system) and shouldn’t be salty that their preferred candidate didn’t win; they should say ggwp and vote harder next time.
Just throwing that out there so people don’t feel pressured into becoming voters. “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal” said someone once.
If I could vote in a place where invalid votes were counted as invalid and if most votes came in as invalid it would invalidate the election I’d be crossing out the ballot in every election. Unfortunately in most places invalid votes don’t count (they’re simply a statistic) or they get counted as part of the winning party/candidate’s vote (fuck that).
That said, I like how the DPRK chooses candidates. (Ideally) they’re chosen through discussion and then a Yes/No vote is done to confirm there is an overwhelming consensus. Hence the Western propaganda against DPRK saying they have one candidate on the ballot and the candidate gets over 90% of the vote.
Remember, choice to keep the Soviet Union won the most votes and they dissolved it anyway.
No one asked me if I want to live in a capitalist system, until they do, I have no reason to go out and vote.
I think we should vote for communist candidates if possible as a way to raise class consciousness and protest against the establishment but obviously socialism won’t come through the ballot box.
There are no communist parties that are also revolutionary or who engage in all the activities a Party should. Communist “parties” engage in electoralism and then spout platitudes once they get any kind of media attention.