A-Infos (en) Greece, protaanka: Don't vote - Don't get caught fooling yourself again (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The following text is being shared hand in hand in the context of anti-election 
activities in the western districts---- The 2023 election is getting closer and 
understandably, party staffs are on high alert. Promises and lies, expectations 
and delusions, all are currently playing their part to convince the electorate 
and trap them on party ballots. Every detail makes a difference, which is why 
would-be rulers from across the political spectrum try to take advantage of every 
opportunity to increase their voter turnout at the polls, exploiting their 
mechanisms and smearing their party members from edge to edge. tip. ---- 
Pre-election recipes are traditional and tested. On the one hand, the parties in 
power are trying to convince of their differences, to forget their criminal deeds 
and to present one government perspective as better than the other. The potential 
rulers of the neoliberal and social democratic wings, contrasting each other's 
scandals, not of course to see who is more honest, but who is the least corrupt, 
compete in political dirt. Old art sieve of the urban political system, which 
over decades of alternating governance between ND. and PASOK has always defined 
the stakes for the winner in this way. Now that SYRIZA has also governed and, as 
expected, proved that it is no different in dirt, the exchange of "arguments" for 
the promotion of the less dirty has been enriched and since the parties with a 
governing past have become three, the content of the arguments for the next 
popular deception being richer, it became even dirtier.

On the other side of the political spectrum, the bankrupt forces of the communist 
left seek patronage to resurrect the dead dictatorships of the proletariat, which 
where they have prevailed, have confirmed that they are the other sides of the 
same coin. The remaining nostalgics of the red junta build a rampart against 
popular anti-systemic radicalization by trying to strengthen their mechanisms and 
increase their electoral percentages, either by proposing disciplined trust in 
the leadership and waiting until the party captures the state in the second 
presence (KKE) or by proposing "transitional programs" supposedly 
"anti-capitalist" within the bourgeois state (ANTARSYA) actually championing 
SYRIZA and PASOK as water carriers of social democratic assimilation.

Somewhere in between, all sorts of fascists and far-rights are trying to stick 
their noses in to get back into the political spotlight and inject their poison 
into the testing society. Their constant goal is to defend with rage and wash the 
system of the social ills it causes, shifting all the problems to the 
"foreigners", to the "different", to each "other". Fascists are re-emerging to 
play their historic role as systemic backups, sowing hatred in society and the 
working class, cannibalistically dividing the social body to turn against each 
other, to christen each other as enemy people who cannot be divided nothing, 
because of origin, gender, sexual preferences, other social characteristics, etc.

With what we have experienced in recent years and knowing all of them, popular 
experience should be able to recognize the tricks and party lies, the exploiters 
of the popular anxieties and not get caught up in the politicking of the 
candidate dynasties of social life. Still, it seems we have a long way to go as 
self-deception holds up well. How else can it be explained that in the year 2023 
the people-killing New Democracy is in government and the scumbags of the social 
democracy SYRIZA and PASOK appear as its counterweight? How else to interpret the 
considerable power that the systemic Stalinists of the KKE maintain within the 
labor and student movement if not as self-deception of the popular masses? How 
else to translate the existence of far-right and Nazi formations if not as social 
amnesia for the crimes and dark ideas of these misanthropes?

We should finally understand that the government of a state is nothing more than 
the administrator of a predatory, unjust, oppressive economic and political 
system. The debate about who is the most suitable is not about the working class 
and the social majority. The government that will be formed will be the helmsman 
of the system that daily drains you, snatches the fruit of your labor and 
consigns you more and more to poverty and destitution. There is no government 
that will be your ally if you are employed, unemployed, if you do not belong to 
the parasitic minorities who reap the wealth, who have the power and the 
positions. All governments are your enemy and you must understand this before it 
is too late, before you lose your home, your job and everything else you have 
left after so many years of crisis.

How much crap does one have to eat to get into these polls? Right-wing and 
left-wing governments, "special purpose" governments with technocrat prime 
ministers (see Papadimos), self-sufficient single-party governments and 
multi-party cooperation governments have been formed since the beginning of the 
global economic crisis and from the submission to the memorandums. All different 
government variations were tried. But what has changed in our lives? Many, but 
all for the worse, whichever sector we look at. How did all these governments 
differ from each other? Let's leave our subjective beliefs and look objectively 
at our salaries, pensions, social benefits, labor and social rights, health, 
education and there we will find all the answers. The differences concern the 
names, the recipes, the ways, the methods and not the substance.

In the upcoming elections, the mass popular abstention should be the one that 
will dominate, with much larger percentages this time, in order to send a message 
to the political and economic system, to the political personnel and the 
institutions of capitalism and the state, that so far! In order not to legitimize 
with our vote the new powers to plunder our income and lives for "our good" and 
the "good of the economy". To refrain en masse, consciously, participating in the 
social and class struggles to strengthen the perspective of the overthrow, the 
rupture with the system and its institutions, so that the idea of Social 
Revolution is born within the bosom of society.

A vote for the parties in power is a wasted vote

A vote to the left is a doubly lost vote

Let's not be fooled again. ABSTENTION

INITIATIVE OF ANARCHIST SAINTS ANRGYRO - KAMATEROU

https://protaanka.espivblogs.net/2023/01/12/min-psifiseis-min-piasteis-xana-koroido/
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