Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:30:22 -0400
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Jaywalking (Was voting ... A Reply to Noam Chomsky)


These penalties for non-voters/abstainers , the fines
lectures by hypocrite bourgeois judges, and their political
flunkeys  , lackeys and apologists are in a way another
exposure of the bosses system . 
Some may not think the abstainers make a point--but in
bourgeois 'democracy' , its effacy is mainly via 'consent',
validated partly  through elections., etc - and the passivity
that feeds it.
(Chomsky is only  partly  on target here actually about ' consent' but then
he seems to get suckered into the ballot box  circus -strange 
for a so-called 'anarchist" ).
 If you pullout from 
this rigged charade to christen the bosses henchmen
screwing you from their state power, you may be considered
a threat , not now maybe, but in deepening crises , yes. 

Many workers still believe this political system can work 
for the waged slaves as well as for the slavers.
Bourgeois theory (democracy/elections) also becomes
a material force when it grips the masses.
But  this is the strength of 'democracy ' not its weakness,
The modern state democracy is eminently superior to any
'fascist' form of superstructures. For 90% of  bourgeois in power,
this is proven by history , form an economic and also a
political/military point of view.

Communists should bring out/expose the actual historical track
record on elections and how the bosses need them more
in this epoch, their effect on workers self organization, action , etc.. 
In the 18-19th cent , the bosses wanted a restricted 'franchise'
but today they are begging  people to vote and even paying
well for 'voter sign ups', corporate media blitzes, etc. 
You dont have to be an aryan, or
a property owner, or male. Come one -come all!  Its
a big tent . Aahhh, PT Barnum would be proud!

Neil


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