In Defense of Elections

捍卫选举

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2009-03-09

Traditional left-wing thought treats elections as epiphenomenal: build a strong enough social movement and politicians will be forced to do what you want. In this view, it doesn’t really matter who gets elected since they’re ultimately all subject to the same structural forces. Working to get someone “good” elected is really just a waste of time, since they’ll turn out to be as bad as all the others once they get into office.

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