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Voting Elections Education System Higher Education Campaign Electoralism

“...electoralism in Africa does nothing to fundamentally change the status quo; it does nothing to abolish the system of privilege and class differentiation.”

Class System Electoralism

Book:African Anarchism: The History of a Movement

Source: African Anarchism: The History of a Movement

“From the moment that opposing interests and class conflict exist, there can be no unity of organization, and in spite of the outward appearance of popular sovereignty, the state remains the organ of the economically dominant class and the instrument of defence of its interests.”

Democracy Capitalism Marxism Class Struggle Hegemony Mystification Class Society Electoralism

Book:The Democratic Principle

Source: The Democratic Principle

“From the moment that opposing interests and class conflicts exist, there can be no unity of organization, and in spite of the outward appearance of popular sovereignty, the state remains the organ of the economically dominant class and the instrument of defence of its interests”

Democracy Capitalism Marxism Elections Class Struggle Hegemony Mystification Class Society Electoralism

Book:The Democratic Principle

Source: The Democratic Principle

“Finance capital subordinates the Canadian State more and more directly to its interests and control. State-monopoly capitalism — the integration or merging of the interests of finance capital with the state — is a new stage in the extension of corporate control to all sectors of economic and political life. The government, while seemingly independent of specific corporate interests, has become predominantly the political instrument of a small group comprising the top monopoly capitalists for exercising control over the rest of society. Finance capital uses the state to provide orders, capital and subsidies, and to secure foreign markets and investments. Monopoly capital supports the expansion of the state sector — both services and enterprises — when that serves its interests, and at other times it uses the state to cut back and privatize. The state is also used to redistribute income and wealth in favour of monopoly interests through the tax system, and through legislation to drive down wages and weaken the trade union movement. State-monopoly capitalism undermines the basis of traditional bourgeois democracy. The subordination of the state to the interests of finance capital erodes the already limited role of elected government bodies, federal, provincial and local. Big business openly intervenes in the electoral process on its own behalf, and also indirectly through a network of pro-corporate institutes and think tanks. It uses its control of mass media to influence the ideas and attitudes of the people, and to blatantly influence election results. It corrupts the democratic process through the buying of politicians and officials. It tramples on the political right of the Canadian people to exercise any meaningful choice, thereby promoting widespread public alienation and cynicism about the electoral process.”

Corruption Lobbying Gerrymandering Electoralism Base And Superstructure

Book:Canada's Future Is Socialism Program of the Communist Party of Canada

Source: Canada's Future Is Socialism Program of the Communist Party of Canada

“Communism demonstrates that the formal juridical and political application of the democratic and majority principle of all the citizens while society is divided into opposed classes in relation to the economy, is incapable of making the state an organizational unit of the whole society or the whole nation.”

Democracy Capitalism Communism Class Struggle Dialectics Class Society Electoralism

Book:The Democratic Principle

Source: The Democratic Principle