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Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin

Red Menace

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The Importance of Elections in the United States

The poor and working classes are less likely to engage in elections than more wealthy and petty bourgeois individuals. Voter participation is racialized as well, with forty three % of non voters being black or litino,. compared to 22 % of vote this is not purely because of a lack of interest, though. A long and ongoing history of voter disfranchisement in the united states exists to day. And when we look at the working class, they mostly have decided to ignore this form of struggle. When you talk to workers among the working poor, you often hear a scepticism towards politics. It seems silly to assume that elections are a magical bridge by which we can connect the working class and

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