Explain, without making a liberalist moral argument, the material benefit of not voting in an election you have a >right to vote in.
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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.
<It's a waste of time.
This is one of the few valid arguments. Good on those who were going to make it.
However, it's only a valid argument if you use that time more effectively.
<My vote is statistically worthless.
This is a self-fulfilling prophecy - it's only true when enough people believe it's true.
But if you are in a region where that can't be changed, simply vote for a communist candidate for propaganda purposes. Or, in some systems, funding purposes.
Truke
All hail the people's child rape/murdering bourgeoisie!
>>2676519I think the best argument against electoralism is the amount of energy that some activists put into it when they could be working on the ground to build up independent organizations (or actual socialist parties) instead. But that doesn't apply to the vast majority of people, especially not the ones sitting on their ass shitposting on the internet. Most non-voters are not doing something better than voting, they're just doing nothing.
I sympathize if your state/country is a shithole and they make voting as hard as possible, but otherwise voting really is not that hard.
>>2676610I live in the third world and the government does everything short of offering blowjobs in order to get people to vote
The turn out is like 20% mostly just military and militia personnel who are forced to.
At the end people don't want to grant legitimacy to their class dictatorships and its daily violence. Amazing how the 'masses' can be more class literate than some self described "revolutionaries"