A Public Service Announcement
Published at 07:54 on 15 August 2016
We interrupt this presidential campaign (and my numerous pontifications on it) to remind you of the essential nature of bourgeois politics:
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.” — V.I. Lenin
Yes, yes: I know. The guy was a major-league authoritarian. No disputes there. That still doesn’t make his observation above any the less valid.
And yes, the wording above is Lenin’s, not Marx’s, though Lenin wrote it while paraphrasing Marx. You can find the source here.