- Hello Mary! ---- - Hi Ana! Wow, that's good that I found you. You know, I'm here
thinking about who I'm voting. You, who is always talking about politics, can you help me?
---- 'You know I am an anarchist right? ---- - Yes! And I wanted to know that even as
voting anarchists? ---- - We voted in acts of street, in the assemblies of social
movements, trade unions. Voted in the fight! ---- - Yes, but what about the polls? You
vote null then? ---- - In fact, voting for us at the polls makes no difference. No matter
who you vote for, none of the changes that we really want and need will come from
representatives! Besides, elections are set too long before the day when we go to the
polls. ---- - As well? Are you saying that they are not fair? ---- - Not a bit! To win
elections, you need to campaign. To campaign, you need funding, which comes from
industries, banks, agribusiness ... That is, who does not sell to the rich, do not have a
chance to win! All candidates will have a chance to defend the interests of those who
funded them.
- Ah, but candidates are different ... There's always one that is least bad, is not it?
- They are different, yes, but does not make much difference to us, hardworking people.
You know, every candidate who has any chance of winning represent powerful interests ...
They just do it in different ways. None of them addresses the most fundamental problems of
society. Today we have a federal government that says the left, but in practice is
privatizing what is public, does not invest in our essential rights, such as education,
health and transport ... In other words, even reforms he is capable of doing.
- But then we should not vote for candidates who would actually these reforms?
- Neither do these reforms, because they have to obey the laws of international capital.
They can not give the default on public debt, for example. The state is all built for that
not to happen. And without touching it, no really deep reform is possible, because most of
our money goes to pay this debt. Ie, beyond the winners are already defined funding, what
they will do is limited by economic power, both rich country, as the interests of the rich
around the world! More than that, the Brazilian policy is dominated by conservative stands
that prevent even the reforms in ensuring rights for minorities.
- Why, for which elections then?
- They serve to legitimize the discourse of "democracy," which has nothing democratic! It
is very advantageous for people who are in power deceive the people with the idea that we
have the power to change anything by voting, distancing us from actions that are truly
transformative. Thus, legitimize those in power, ruling for the rich, and when things do
not go well, blame the people who "knew not vote."
- But it is not through voting, what can we do?
- Go to the streets, the struggles base. For us, anarchists, matters much more everyday
struggles, building an alternative of doing politics than voting or not one or another
candidate ...
- Since when yelled in the street is doing politics?
- Since a long time! Most of the rights of the people were thus secured. When workers are
on strike and take to the end, they win better working conditions; When the homeless
occupy a property, they advance within their rights to housing; The same goes for the
landless to occupy land; when residents of the periphery make a protest, lock pathways,
radicalize, they conquer their agendas, which are basic needs of the neighborhood where
they live; when students press the rectors and governors is that they get more student
assistance and so on. In none of these cases, we depend on representatives! In all these
cases, who actually makes the policy is the people. And the best possible way: The people
making policy for the people!
- Oh yeah? And when it actually happened?
- Often! And no need to go far: in the days of June last year, what happened when millions
of people took to the streets? The bus of more than 100 cities fell. We have recently seen
several strong strikes and radicalized, trampling the infrequ directions unions, dating
conquests of rights, showing that the workers' organization speaks much louder than the
voice of any direction! And these movements were not depending on representatives to
anything.
- Okay, Anne, I'll think about it all you told me ...
Look, and we have a lot to do politics in this society. And know that for anarchist
politics is not only done in an election year, it is made for us every day. If you want to
join, contact any of us!
- Okay, you can leave. Even more!
- Up!
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