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Not voting, or even a massive refusal to vote by itself won't do anything. After all, it's still within the framework of The System, which tell us that voting is crucial. By not voting you say "my vote is a potent symbolic raspberry directed at the Man." But how is that Raspberry going to work itself into fundamental change? How do you get from the non-vote to direct rule of workers councils, if that's what you want? In a way, the non-vote protest affirm the importance of parliamentary politics, but if there is to be fundamental change, voting will be a relatively minor issue. Either the change happens and voting affirms that change, or change renders the vote irrelevant. So, if someone out there is working for fundamental social change, and is truly too busy to vote, well, more power to them. Otherwise, it's kind of silly to think that this most passive of gestures will make any sort of difference.
Another trap is to think that all elections are the same. Voting can be crucial at some points, at others, not so much.
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