[Marxism] A promising interview with El Sal. pres-elect Funes

[Mehmet Cagatay]

S. Artesian wrote:

"The question is, why do others think the election itself was such a
"promising" event? And why do other others who considered the election
itself promising, now feel disappointed in the interview-- if any of those
other others are on the list."

Yesterday, Renegade Eye published a link on his blog to a short animated movie based on a famous story from Tommy Douglas, the first leader of New Democratic Party of Canada. As you might know, it is story of mice that vote in rotation for black cats and white cats:

http://advant.blogspot.com/2009/03/kiefer-sutherland-presents-mouseland.html

This is the comment that I wrote tonight:

Hello Ren,

Thank you for introducing to us this revealing little movie that touches upon one aspect of the deception of elections in capitalist democracy. I don't want to sound like a grumpy skeptic but on the other side, contemporary delusion about elections doesn't reside on the obvious absurdity of mice that vote for cats, but on the belief that mice can make a difference by voting for fellow mice, rats, vermin, etc. I'm not simply proposing to absent ourselves from electoral process, but, the proper way for directly engaging in politics is the creation of circumstances that will force immanent political figures of the existing socio-economic order to take particular decisions or that might might overthrow them altogether.

mç