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Title: Never vote…
Author: Anarchists
Date: April 2012
Language: en
Topics: anti-voting, France 
Source: Retrieved on May 2013 from http://www.non-fides.fr/?France-Never-vote
Notes: Leaflet distributed in France during the 2012 presidential elections.

Anarchists

Never vote…

We like to consider ourselves as free men and women, one and

indivisible, whom cannot be cut in little pieces to be fit in the

institutional drawers of the State or the tills of bosses and others

owners. But it’s not difficult to realize that this is only one more

illusion.

The fact is that we are not able to belong to ourselves. We are

possessed by masters through money and time. Our time is divided up in

little pieces at the will of politicians, advertisers, cops, judges,

social “assistances”, bosses, of medicine, communities and family. All

of them combine at a moment or another, consciously or not, to divide

us, to set one against the other, to represent us by force, to rob us,

to enlist us to go to the army, to analyze us, to threaten us, to buy

and sell us, or, more basically, to club us.

The politicians are part of the ones who buy us at the best price to

sell us at discount, they are part of the ones who make our eyes moist

before they rape the amount of brain time available. They claim to

represent our aspirations by dictating them to us, a social gun on the

temple. In exchange of a ballot, they promise us oasis in the sandstorms

of our existences, in the desert of pretenses and misery that fill our

bored lives.

Soon, a new moment for voting, a free-for-all, the absolute hegemony of

the ideological carpet salespeople. But who is still stupid enough to

sincerely believe in it? Who is still stupid enough to go voting with a

pounding heart like when we go to a first date?

Almost nobody; we go voting like others clock in, we go voting like we

go to work, we go voting like when we fill out our tax return: in the

most absolute boredom or looking down and hating oneself. Some are

openly representatives of the bourgeoisie, others claim to represent the

poor and the oppressed, but nothing looks more like a representative of

the bourgeoisie than a representative of the poor.

No candidate will ever represent our lust for not being represented,

none of them could ever represent faithfully two individuals at the same

time. No election will ever make us free, will ever give us back our

lives. The question is not to vote for whom or for what, the question is

why vote?

At the next elections, as for all the others before, we will abstain

from voting and we will invite everyone to do the same, not to

participate at one’s own slavery. The point is not only to abstain and

to desert the ballot boxes but to burn them all and to set fire to this

world which debases and degrades us, to take back our lives, our bodies

and our dignity, and if intelligence is not enough, force will do the

trick.

Revolution.

Let’s attack everything that makes us weak and depossesses us of our own

lives.

Let’s liberate ourselves from politics.

Anarchists