Explain, without making a liberalist moral argument, the material benefit of not voting in an election you have a >right to vote in.
<>Let's cross a few low-hanging fruit off the list because apparently this board is filled with infantile /pol/transhumanist hamburgers who kneejerk at an OP without reading any replies:
<You can't vote our way out of a bourgeois system!Yes.
That doesn't contradict the material benefits that even minor reforms bring to our ability to build a revolution.
<The only options are war criminals! I don't want to vote for a war criminal.This is a selfish moral argument, comparable to someone who doesn't want us to kill reactionaries because violence will hurt their conscience.
<Even succdems are compromised by capital.Yes. Conversely, they are more likely to be susceptible to pressure from worker organizations and popular movements. Electing a manipulable government is a valid tactic in forcing pro-worker change. In my country, some of the most pro-labor eras have been under anti-labor, but weak, government leaders caving to union pressure, anti-racism activists and queer-rights activists. The conservatives even legalized same-sex marriage.
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