WORLD WORLDWIDE GREECE News Journal Update - (en) Greece, Protaanka: 6 + 1 reasons in favor of voting abstention (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The following text is addressed to the world of work and the youth of the western

suburbs and beyond. It will be shared as part of our consistent anti-election
actions. ---- In view of the May 21 parliamentary elections, we anarchists must
again remind ourselves that the freedom to elect bosses does not abolish either
the masters or the slaves. In yet another electoral contest, without ignoring its
particularities, we will sound the alarm and to the entire working class, the
lower social strata, to every unemployed person and to every youth we will say:
A) Voting for the ruling parties is complicity.
B) The support of communist parties is in reality an entrapment and an embankment
in popular radicalization. It leads to the support of bankrupt ideologies and
proposals which where implemented did not emancipate the working classes and the
people.

C) Supporting "smaller parties" neither questions nor opposes the rotten economic
and political system that crushes our daily life and work.

D) There is no anti-system vote

Here are 6 + 1 reasons for abstaining that we urge everyone to consider and
critically evaluate before deciding whom to support in the upcoming parliamentary
elections.

VOTING IS NOT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
By voting for the candidate government managers, we neither participate in
decision-making, nor co-shape the ways of solving social problems. Instead,
through voting we entrust a body of representatives to decide on our behalf.
Voting and electing a government means renouncing the commons, renouncing my
active involvement in the problems of social life and transferring the management
of my life to the responsibility of others.

Looking even deeper, we should reflect on what is the very content of the
decisions on which a government is called upon to take a position. A government
of a bourgeois capitalist state is the administrator of critical political
decisions concerning the terms of operation of the economy, society and state.
That is, it decides on an already established framework of social relations which
is expressed on economic relations of inequality (the many work but the few get
rich), political unfreedom (the many vote but the few decide) and social
enslavement (if you resist, your masters will they crush you by loosening the
instruments of repression).

Therefore, before we elect the administrator of inequality, unfreedom and
enslavement, we might first ask ourselves whether it is worth compromising and
submitting to these established social and class relations. To reflect and
ultimately decide whether we agree with the existing economic model (capitalism),
the existing social organization (state) and the present government (bourgeois
parliamentary democracy). Only in this way, the decision will be critical and
conscious and only in this way will the formation of opinion be self-willed and
not propagandistically shaped by the ideological mechanisms of the regime.

TO RESIST THE CRIMINALS OF THE PARTIES IN POWER
A decade ago the expression of popular anger had taken on such a character that
it made the political staff tremble. Politicians who voted for memorably
anti-social measures to "save the economy" (that is, the capitalist economy) were
hunted down wherever they appeared. How did it happen, so many years later, that
New Democracy survives despite its crimes, that SYRIZA MPs have the audacity to
appear in demonstrations, and that PASOK reappears as a government partner?

We must not forget that New Democracy is the party of the rich, of big capital,
of the big interests of this place. PASOK is on the same wavelength. With the
difference that as a "social democratic" party it is more intertwined with an era
of party state and of course intertwined with eras of indecency, sleaze and
swindling. Both ND and PASOK are parties with a long history: in scandals and
anti-people crimes.

If you are a worker, unemployed or low-pensioner, if you are a young person who
does not come from wealthy families, voting for the right, i.e. the faction of
the rich, is like consciously signing your slow death. But also by voting left
and centre-left, that is, the factions of the rich who invoke the poor by name,
you are again doing exactly the same thing. After all, as Popi Tsapanidou stated
with too much honesty, "SYRIZA and ND do not differ on the critical issues".
Enriching the statement of the press representative of SYRIZA, we would say that
"all the parties that claim the management of bourgeois power, that is, the
management of this rotten economic and political system that impoverishes us,
will not differ on the critical issues". This finding can also be verified
through our experience,

Through the government change necessary for the system, SYRIZA became the useful
reserve of the big bosses of the place. He who undertook on their behalf, to pull
the snake out of the hole by signing the 3rd and 4thmemorandum at a time when the
social majority had revolted and the right could not manage the popular uprisings
and resistances. The anti-social and anti-people measures that SYRIZA voted for
were not voted by all the previous memorandum governments until then. And this,
because with the people in the streets, they wouldn't be able to. Only the
deception of the people by a left social democratic government could ensure the
social and class peace that the system needed to continue unabated the violent
impoverishment and impoverishment of the labor forces for the interests of the
powerful.

THEN LET'S VOTE SMALL PARTIES
What does "small party" mean? And how small will it remain if we all go together
and vote for it? There is no more apolitical, more incoherent and more systemic
logic than that which says "vote for a small party".

It is apolitical because each party has a name, positions and declared goals.
Voting blindly, unaware of what this "minor party" is, is actually an apolitical
vote.

It is incoherent (not only because it is the logic that brought Leventis and
Velopoulos to the parliament) but because the mass recruitment of the "small
party" leads prospectively to its electoral growth, thus also to the
deconstruction of the original argument on the basis of which it was voted. Such
"small parties" both from the right (like LAOS and ANEL), as well as from the
"center" (POTAMI) and the left (DIMAR) have played a very dirty role in the last
decade, as pillars of the political system, either from positions of power by
participating in government formations or by voting on memoranda. Something
similar can happen with MERA25, which throughout the previous period was
fervently seeking pre-election programmatic convergence with the "progressive"
parties in power (SYRIZA,

It is systemic, because the logic "we vote for a small party" tries in every way
to shrink abstinence and discredit in the political system and its goal is,
through ridiculous arguments, to squeeze and trap in urban politics, those who
are not party members enlisted and intended not to vote. In addition, as
mentioned above, these so-called small parties are actually useful reserves and
crutches of the system that, after fulfilling their systemic role, shrink and
disappear from the political map, and at the same time, they are often
assimilated into the ruling parties, supplying them with cadres.

THERE IS NO ANTI-SYSTEM VOTE
Every vote in municipal elections is systemic. Every party that claims power,
claims to manage the system.

The logic of that "anti-systemic vote" is what brought the systemic dogs of
fascism and Nazism to the political fore. Those people who wash away capital by
saying that poverty is the fault of the poor, who want a war-loving and
totalitarian state of control, mass executions and imprisoning dissidents, who
dream of killing those they perceive as "different".

This logic is reproduced over and over again in this pre-election period through
the systemic media with their constant references to the "anti-systemic vote" for
the party of neo-Nazi Kasidiaris, essentially advancing the profile he wants to
build. So to finish, with this narrative and the entrapment between the
"controversy" of fascism and democracy, we should understand that fascists and
neo-Nazis are not anti-systemic. It is the long arm of systemic brutality. And it
is time to consign them, as well as nationalism, racism and every misanthropic
idea inherent in bourgeois democracy and the existing regime, to the dustbin of
history once and for all.

HOW SHOULD WE TURN TO THE KKE?
The despotic socialist states of the previous century were the best evidence of
the anarchist critique of Marxism. They neither led to classless and free
societies nor changed the quality of life of the working class. Authoritarian
socialism, as opposed to the libertarian, revolutionary socialism of the
anarchists, is the other side of the same coin in reproducing inequalities and
unliberties for the people and the working classes.

The KKE as a representative of Marxism-Leninism and the "dictatorship of the
proletariat" advocates an oppressive state of social unfreedom and hierarchies
that has historically failed. The party itself is neither an enemy nor an
opponent of the bourgeois society, but one more, stable pillar of the bourgeois
political system and its course has proved it all these years.

HOW CAN WE VOTE TO THE LEFT OF THE KKE?
There is no one to the left of the KKE. The remaining formations of the communist
left, the various graphic offshoots, represent the same failed authoritarian
programs. With the difference that many of them, such as e.g. ANTARSYA, are
nothing more than pots of social democracy, i.e. informal allies of SYRIZA in
their attempt to climb into the elections.

The workers' revolutionary ideology is libertarian and not authoritarian and has
nothing to do with communist parties. The revolutionary ideology of the workers
is anarchism and not Marxism, which in all its historical variations bankrupted
and perpetuated, within the socialist states, the same social and class problems.

The hope for a classless egalitarian society is embedded in the anarchist
propositions that communist parties in the last century fought with gun in hand,
slaughtering and imprisoning libertarian movements across the land.

IF ELECTIONS CHANGED THE WORLD THEY WOULD BE ILLEGAL

Although the upcoming election is expected to be ambiguous, the only fact at the
moment, apart from a shocking prospect, is the participation of PASOK in the new
government structure, in the possibility of a non-self-supporting government
neither in the first nor in the second ballot. In other words, by voting for
Mitsotakis or Tsipras, you get a gift from Androulakis and re-legitimize a party
that for years was at the helm of power and whose governance is synonymous with
bankruptcy and subjection to the people-killing and worker-killing memoranda and
therefore, with the most dramatic moments of violent looting social wealth and
labor rights in recent decades.

New Democracy, SYRIZA and PASOK are enemies of the people and not allies in
improving our lives. Every vote to support them is a vote to perpetuate our
plunder and is a vote to brutally insult our dignity and memory.

Conversely, voting for the communist left arms the party apparatuses of bankrupt
proposals, which in the name of the working class, want to install dictatorial
regimes, of authoritarian enforcement. It is time to finish with them and
organize the libertarian movement of the workers that will fight for the
emancipation of the labor forces outside the failed programs of authoritarian
socialism-communism, with a strategic goal of a classless-aggressive society.

Finally, let's crush the neo-Nazis and the system that gives birth to them and
nurtures them without any trust in civil justice and democracy which, while daily
murdering refugees and immigrants at seas and borders, at the same time declares
itself as an alleged enemy of fascists and Nazis.

Against the dominant system, the upcoming elections and the new government, we
oppose:

NOT WITH THE PARTIES OF THE BOURGIES AND DEMOCRACY, NOR WITH THE AGGITATORS OF
THE SOCIALIST STATE, NOR WITH THE FASCISTS THE LONG HAND OF THE SYSTEM

WITH ANARCHISM

INITIATIVE OF ANARCHIST SAINTS ANRGYRO - KAMATEROU

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