[lbo-talk] Campaigning vs. Voting

[nathanne at nathannewman.org]

> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> My own view is that one needs to discredit the electoral process by rather
> spreading ideas on how to create a system of dual power, so that
> eventually very few people go to the polls but many participate in other
> forms of political organisation.

That are what?  Dominated by elite intellectuals, without all the
grubiness of one person, one vote?

What do you have against voting?

Sure, in practice it's perverted in a lot of ways, but that's an argument
for improving the process.

I hear this anti-voting rhetoric and I have an instinctive historical
"f--- you" feeling, given that people have died to gain that right to
vote.

-- Nathan Newman