fuckyeahanarchistposters:

“Participation in the politics of the
bourgeois States has not brought the labor movement a hair’s-breadth
nearer to Socialism, but thanks to this method, Socialism has almost
been completely crushed and condemned to insignificance…
Participation in parliamentary politics has affected the Socialist
Labor movement like an insidious poison. It destroyed the belief in
the necessity of constructive Socialist activity, and, worst of all,
the impulse to self-help, by inoculating people with the ruinous
delusion that salvation always comes from above.”

Rudolf Rocker, on
electioneering.