[lbo-talk] the antiwar student vote

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 29 12:40:19 PDT 2003


Matthew Snyder wrote:


>Chuck0 writes:
>> The vast majority of anarchists do not vote or participate in elections.
>> There may be a few younger anarchists who vote next year, but they do so
>> out of fear and failure to totally reject their American social
>> conditioning.
>
>[snip]
>
>> It will really suck big time if American activists get suckered into
>> wasting their time over the next year on pointless electoralism. This
>> will set back our work and destroy momentum much more thoroughly than
>> any amount of government repression could hope to achieve.
>
>Is there no difference between "pointless electoralism" and the simple act of
>casting a ballot?

And I'm wondering if Chuck thinks it makes absolutely no difference to his work who's in the White House? The Clinton years were pretty good for movement-building, weren't they?

Doug



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