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Well, I can justify it, although I have always voted in national elections anyway.
If I am a communist, and every candidate that stands is a capitalist, who shall I vote for? No political party represents my views or interests, there are very small socialist parties but they are mostly full of Leninist and Trotskyite in-fighting, I have never come across a genuinelyt communist party... so who shall I vote for?
Maybe I should stand myself since no one represents me... but that costs £1500 and I cant afford it... so I cannot afford to really take part in the democratic process... everything- the media, the electoral law, the coalition of powerful parties - has an interest in maintaining the status quo, of denying any real ideological debate.
The present society will not be ovethrown by a capitalist liberal democratic election... the revolution will not come through the ballot box.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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