File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-06-08.010, message 116


Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:59:06 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Who would you vote for?


>From what I can see, I basically agree with Vladimir's characterization of
the CPRF. It seems to be quite a marvelous attempt to combine the worst of
the old CPSU and the new autocratic state capitalism (using the term in the
sense of, say, the Latin American military dictatorships before the blessed
reign of democracy came to hold sway over the world). However, it seems
that the choice between Yeltsin and Zyuganov is a real one, if not as real
a one as we'd like, and the two of them are the only people with a shot at
getting elected. Given that, abstention becomes half as much an affirmative
act for Yeltsin as voting for him, so I see nothing wrong in voting for
Zyuganov. Certainly, to see Yeltsin as in any way "safer for democracy"
than the worst of his opponents is completely unjustified.

Rahul




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