3rd Party Voting and the Democracy of Sisyphus

It's that time folks! Every four years we are told to elect Democrats to prevent GOP from winning, and its the most important election of our lives. The US election is days away and we wanted to explore the options given to us as socialists. Will voting Democrats make it easier to organize the working class and radical politics? What about a 3rd party candidate? Is participating in American democracy even viable or is it a Sisyphean task?

Here are a few articles that caught our eyes

https://independentsocialistgroup.org/2024/09/04/why-the-working-class-should-vote-for-jill-stein-and-cornel-west/

https://socialistworker.org/2016/04/26/elections-and-the-marxist-tradition

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/16/rwry-o16.html

https://communistusa.org/class-war-2024-the-tasks-of-communists-in-the-coming-election/

Don't forget to message us to join our reading group every Tuesday night at 730 EST. This week we are reading Chapter 4 of Lenin's What is to be Done

If we get to 20 patrons Doug will read and review a book by the ACP: "Why We Need American Marxism".

Fixed audio glitch that had 30 seconds of silence near the beginning.