<div>Yoshie makes the best point here... The current situation allows for the bourgeois electoral system to be used as a protracted propaganda mechanism: prolong the electoral debate to mollify dissent about the rigged system itself. Certainly needed after the last two elections!</div> <div> </div> <div>I would also point out, on reading the current entries on this thread, that it is illogical to use the bourgeois electoral system as a paradigm by which to criticize efforts not sheerly focused on pragmatism within the system. It's akin to criticizing American Indians for being syphilitic...</div> <div> </div> <div>--adx<BR><B><I>Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 1/21/07, queer dewd formerly known as ( ) <BITCH@PULPCULTURE.ORG>wrote:<BR>> So, we have a new record. Previously, we started this debate 11
months<BR>> before the presidential elections. This cycle, what?, 22 months prior? I<BR>> ran out of toes. :)<BR><BR>A good point. Maybe the single accomplishment of those whom Max<BR>called "the Internet Left" (as opposed to leftists who use the Net) is<BR>to make election seasons longer, so much so that we all, willy-nilly,<BR>become cogs in a perpetual electoral motion machine.<BR>-- <BR>Yoshie<BR><HTTP: montages.blogspot.com /><BR><HTTP: mrzine.org><BR><HTTP: monthlyreview.org /><BR>___________________________________<BR>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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