• slugbones@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    “Go Vote!” Rings more and more hollow every day we have watch the country crumble. I am begging you to think outside the box of electoral politics because it is where dreams go to die.

    Nobody voted to put kids to work at meatpacking plants and we will almost assuredly not be allowed to vote on a solution but there are children suffering dangerous jobs right now. The capitalists that run the country do not care about your votes they care about profits and they have so many more resources than us to tip things in their favor.

    Voting has not and never will be enough. It is literally the bare minimum you can do and you should not pat yourself on the back for it.

    • 🔻Sleepless One🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.

      –Lenin