Despite election, of any form, in any form of ‘democratic’ set up, has been rendered absurd, from its start to the end, with or without EVMs, and during formation of government and later, when it is toppled with the mass defected “Lawmakers”, the voters, close to approximately 60% of the total voters, do take pains, come to election booths, do cast their votes, in hope of changing their future!
The story is not different in US, African, Latin American nations, where even the popularly elected governments are toppled by the CIA assisted coup-de-tat, Army take overs, like in Bolivia (Here, by the way, in re-lection, the previous (toppled) government was restored with a popular support in election), Myanmar (earlier in Chile, Burkina Faso, and dozens of others!). Presidential or other forms make no difference, and even if law is enacted to force every voters to cast their votes.
In addition, even if you have your own government, who do against what they promised you before election! And this trend is universal, at least with all the Right Wing political parties. By the way, it is not only their dishonesty in doing so and backstabbing you, but their inability to do so. To fulfill the promises of 100% employment, provide you education and health services, housing and transport facilities, give you sufficient rest and entertainment time, capitalism has to be superseded with the socialism, and which is inimical to them!
Yet, your perseverance is admirable, in having unshakable faith in election process, which is though your democratic right, but has no democratic outcomes! The existing ruling class or the exploiting class (The capitalist or the bourgeois class) is happy with your faith in all forms of ‘democratic’ process, including election, judiciary, media. Irrespective of you protests, rallies, mass movements, civil disobedience, even if they turn into violent movements, arsons, loot of ‘public’ property, they are not unduly bothered, they do not lose any sleep over the losses, as they know, their hegemony or their empire is intact.
Capitalism, may be in some different forms (social democracy to fascism) continues to exist. The losses are recovered in due time on your cost only, but if socialism is established (where they loose their state power and means of production, private property and the means as well as right/ability to hire your labor power and exploit you, usurp surplus value created by you), they will lose their empire for ever, as restoration of capitalism, like in erstwhile USSR is not a recurrent theme.
And they know it. Their think tanks, advisers, the political and bureaucratic managers know it. They work day and night, through out the year, with their intelligence, institutions and their planted (or even unplanted ones, like revisionists, opportunists, traitors of the working class) ‘leaders’ in the revolutionary parties. When required they assassinate the leaders, cadres, arrest them without provocations (happening en-mass in India, Brazil, African nations, Pakistan, Bangladesh), that is, destroy them physically. Their clouts are all over the world, in every country, in every institutions.
And the present leaders of the Communist Parties, Revolutionaries are for “Election to Election” politics, they prefer Reformist Line over Revolutionary Line, Parliamentary Path over Revolutionary Path, so are their cadres and sympathizers and the people. It is not people’s fault but that of their leaders, as the people or the Proletariat can not appreciate the need of the revolutionary changes, which will free them from the chronic want of the material needs, on their own, but need help of the revolutionary party and ideology from ‘outside’!
Before, I close this article, let us have a look at one quote,
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament: Vladimir Lenin.
All the best to you, whoever you may be! But must think once again, what you want and what are you doing! Are they on similar line, in synch?
Onward for Revolution!
