Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:13:08 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Re: anarchists & voting


Haven't read the whole thread as life is short.

I'm a non-voting Anarchist myself, in a country where
voting is in theory compulsory. But I'm thinking of
going back on the electoral roll.

And I have always thought that Anarchists make too
much of the non-voting thing. The problem is not the
vote itself but the voting mentality. If people can
really vote in a detached way, for the tiny amount of
good or greater-evil-avoidance that their vote can
achieve, then my present view is that they should. The
problem is that with voting comes a feeling of
attachment to the politicial process and ones "own"
party and so forth. If the rpice of voting is that you
are in practice lost as an Anarchist then it is not
worth it.

_jeremy


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