• CommunistFFWhen [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    DAE remember back during the primary, around the Nevada caucus, there was a native Japanese dude who traveled to America just to canvass for Bernie, imagine that. And when during the Iowa Caucus, the Bernie campaign convince a bunch of meat workers and small immigrant communities to vote for the first times and help secure his win there. Or when the union members in Nevada voted overwhelmingly for Bernie despite their leadership threatening them. Call me a lib, but those kind of little stories like that really made me hopeful back then. And then SC and the Super Tuesday happened, all that efforts, all that positivity and hopefulness just up and disappeared, how fucking sad is that.

    • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I saw the gif of Bernie giving that speech on wall street when the package delivery guy walking by patted him on the shoulder and gave a thumbs up and I just got unbelievably pissed of that the entire establishment "left" came together to destroy that man's chances of being president.

    • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      The intro to this article comrade https://espressostalinist.com/2017/05/25/communist-party-alliance-bourgeois-democracy-and-proletarian-democracy/

      However, what U.S. imperialism seems to have discovered is that it has enough wealth and power that it can in many situations at the present time promote individuals, buy a bandwagon of raz-ma-taz and build a movement for optimistic change which can persuade enough people to vote for whoever. This has worked particularly in Poland, Eastern Europe generally and parts of the old Soviet Union.

      ‘Democracy’ needs to be stripped of the humbug that surrounds the word. Before the emergence of classes and the consequent emergence of the state which comes into being as a product of the irreconcilable nature of class contradictions in class society, that is in order that the ruling class can hold down the subject class, there would undoubtedly have been contradictions among the people of the gens and tribes. Contradictions that may have lead to violence. Almost certainly between contending tribes. There would also have been discussion and consultation to handle disputes within the tribes and families of whatever form with the elders holding particular authority. Engels’ brilliant work on the ‘Origin of the family Private Property and the State’, needs to be read and re-read to get an adequate grasp of this subject. ‘Democracy’, is not “allowing people to have their say” as it is commonly understood to mean. Democracy is a form of state. The word emerged to describe a form of slave state in Greece and Rome. The franchise did not extend to the slaves. Nor would any thinking person reasonably expect slaves, who are merely the property of their owners, to have a vote. I make this point to paint a more vivid picture of ‘democracy’ being a class question. A class question which is obscured under the rule of the bourgeoisie which came to power waving the banner of general freedom and democracy. However, my knowledge of Greece and Rome is scanty and not a subject of detailed discussion here. But I have no doubt that there are people here who can speak in depth on this subject. Democracy is a class question and always has been. It can be nothing else.

      Further

      The other is that real power resides in the executive authority of the bureaucracy, civil service, police and standing army. Parliaments come and go, but this powerful body, handpicked for its loyalty to the existing social order, cannot be removed by the legislative assembly.

      Both the RNC and DNC are bought and sold to lobbyists representing finance capital.

      If voting changed anything they'd use South American coup style tactics against candidates and screw them over using the the DNC

      Oh wait they did that twice now