"The State is the product and the manifestation of the antagonisms of the irreconciliable classes." Lenin: State and Revolution.
The Farce For Marxists, the essence of any bourgeois election is the manipulation of workers' consciousness in the interests of the ruling class. Not only the choice presented, but above all the framework of the choice, corrupts the working-class, reducing it to passivity and inertia.
The Elections are a Farce They are a farce for two major reasons. The first one is the deeply ingrained illusion, very much reinforced by the ruling-class and the reformists at election times, that parliamentary election is a democratic conquest of the work ing-class. True universal suffrage is a democratic institution which we must defend from Fascism and Bonapartism. It was substituted for suffrage for property owners only. But suffrage became universal only when new factors were there to cancel its potentiality; when Parliament, because of a certain number of other institutions, was not really doing the governing. The army, the police, special police, secret police, the top administrators of government departments, the national security bodies, the judges etc... are functioning completely independently, away from the influence of universal suffrage. Today, is the admission that this society has b entangled in an insoluble contradiction itself, that is, has split into irreconcilab antagonisms which it is powerless to di in order that these antagonisms, classe conflicting interests, might not consum selves and society in fruitless struggle, i becomes necessary to have a power see standing above society that would alle conflict, and keep it within the bounds "order"; and this power, arisen out of but placing itself above it, and alienatir more and more from it, is the state."Origin of the Family, Private Property State.
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