Question Everything

Elections do not allow ordinary citizens to control the state, the structure of society is such that the state is controlled by big business and the state bureaucracy. If Kucinich (or some other genuine reformer) were elected there would be massive capital flight and Kucinich would be forced to change his policies to obey big business & the state bureaucracy. When radical parties get elected they must become conservative. This has been proven repeatedly throughout history - look at Lula, the German Greens, the Social Democrats, etc. There may be differences in their pre-election platforms, but once in power both Kucinich & Bush must do largely the same thing. Wer'e more likely to have a revolution than to achieve signifigant change via electoralism. Reformists like to portray themselves as pragmatists but anyone who thinks that Kucinich, if elected, would be allowed to implement signifigant changes is a wild-eyed dreamer. And if your'e going to dream why not go whole hog and dream of revolution? For a more indepth critique of electoralism, see my essay The Dead End of Electoralism