- Re: Cook: Why the left’s case for lesser evil sounds hollow Archived Message
Posted by brooks
on May 24, 2020, 11:04 am, in reply to "Re: Cook: Why the left’s case for lesser evil sounds hollow"
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and still the left will be expected to consent to the system as long as one candidate is slightly less evil. All the system has to do is offer a candidate who can market him or herself as less evil than the other candidate. What left, and expected by whom? Anyone on the genuine left will know that the system is a fraud, so why would their consent have anything to do with whether they vote or not, or whom they vote for? That's the fetishization of voting that I was talking about. Capitalism reduces such choices to near meaningless rituals, but one doesn't legitimize the system by voting or abstaining, but by refusing to engage in meaningful resistance. The "system sinks into depravity" for a long litany of reasons, the main one being the increasing concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a depraved oligarchy, and because there has been no successful mass-based political movement capable of taking that power back. In the absence of such a movement, voting or not voting, lesser-evil or greater-evil voting is irrelevant, as is the distinction between violent or non-violent resistance. |