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TrotskistMarx
2nd July 2012, 04:21
Dear friends, check this article in spanish about a well planned vote fraud, in the presidential elections of Mexico of today. Poor Mexico, that country cannot stand 4 more years of neoliberalism and corruption.


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Peña Nieto and his wife, an Univision telenovela artist

El fraude ya se configuró. Tiene un semblante extra-comicial. El día de las elecciones sólo se confirmará formalmente su fatal materialización. Y es que la democracia electoral es por sí misma un fraude aparatoso, una simulación cuyo objeto es dotar de legalidad a un sistema social tiránico. Los partidos políticos sencillamente constituyen un mecanismo de sublimación que desplaza la conflictividad ontológico-política –inherente a una sociedad estratificada– al terreno que más conviene a la clase social dominante: a saber, el de la farsa, el de la fórmula circense a veces con pan, a veces con tortas condimentadas con estafilococos (recuérdese los más de 700 intoxicados en un mitin de Sergio Dolores, priista, en el Estado de Guerrero).

Carlos Reygadas, director de cine, acierta parcialmente cuando sostiene que “en democracia muchas veces se vota por el menos malo, [aunque] esta vez se ha rebasado el límite de la subrepresentación”. Lo que no dice Reygadas, ya sea por desconocimiento o mala memoria, es que la subrepresentación es la norma en los sistemas democráticos, inclusive en aquellos que se ufanan de ser altamente funcionales. Cabe recordar, que el formato democrático vigente supone la delegación de facultades individuales a un “todo” abstracto: el Estado. Los partidos políticos, entelequias enquistadas en la maquinaria estatal, tienen la encomienda de llevar a feliz término la realización de la “voluntad general”, concepto eufemístico que bien pudiera traducirse como “dictadura de una mayoría al servicio de una minoría”. Resumidamente, en democracia la representatividad sólo abarca a los estamentos dirigentes. Otra vez un director de cine, en esta ocasión Alfonso Cuarón, aduce con incisiva precisión: “la tiranía del siglo XXI se llama ‘democracia’”.

Por eso llama la atención que el Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) exhorte a los candidatos a convalidar anticipadamente un proceso fraudulento de principio a fin. En sentido estricto, es un llamado a la ciudadanía a aceptar las reglas de un ejercicio político orgánicamente viciado. Esto es, a suscribirse sin recurso de amparo a una normatividad –la democracia constitucional– que aquí hemos definido como una “política de pequeñas concesiones, grandes saqueos a las masas”. No es casual que frente a las demandas ciudadanas expresadas ante el IFE (incorporación de observadores del YoSoy132, presencia ciudadana durante el cómputo electoral, etc.), seudoperiodistas de distinguida prosapia como Héctor Aguilar Camín sostengan casi socorridamente que “…Todas estas cosas [solicitudes ciudadanas] son imposibles física o legalmente”. Sólo les falta añadir: “Entiendan que la democracia tiene límites insoslayables, méndiga prole resentida”. Es apenas sintomático que el IFE haya atendido tan solícitamente el llamado a los candidatos que emitió el Consejo Coordinador Empresarial para que éstos se comprometieran por escrito a respetar el resultado de la contienda. Mientras que, por otro lado, aplicando un criterio marcadamente sesgado, hiciera caso omiso a las peticiones de los jóvenes YoSoy132 en lo tocante a la realización de un tercer debate presidencial y a la participación de estos jóvenes como observadores de casilla.

Imperativos categóricos de la democracia: a saber, la ley de hierro de la oligarquía, la irrenunciable subrepresentación de la ciudadanía, el consenso forzado como estrategia para atemperar el disenso razonado.

Ante la certeza del fraude, ¿qué hacer el 1º de julio? Uno de los escasos argumentos valiosos que leí a favor del voto se lo debo a un colectivo feminista. Reprodúzcole a continuación: “Quiero que gane [AMLO] para debatirle sus posturas sobre nuestros temas. Prefiero convertirme en la oposición de AMLO que de cualquiera de los otros” (Marta Lamas, Proceso).

En suma, de los fraudes el menor.

SOURCE: http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=152286&titular=la-certeza-del-fraude-


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GPDP
2nd July 2012, 20:53
Not surprising in the least. This kind of shit has been going on forever. The Mexican state is a well-oiled machine that creates, perpetuates, and thrives under corruption. No election could possibly change this without stepping on more than a few well-entrenched toes.

Between the government and the cartels, Mexico's workers stand to gain nothing but further immiseration.

Cork-nut
6th July 2012, 15:21
Would just like to point out that the Mexican presidential term is 6 years not 4.

***!AMLO, s¡!

Rottenfruit
7th July 2012, 23:20
Surprise the dream candidate for Usa won,
Clearly Usa has been bringing "democracy" to Mexico ;)

electrostal
7th July 2012, 23:22
Wasn't there like, widespread buying of votes?
These elections are a complete joke, even more than regular bourgeois elections.

MarxSchmarx
8th July 2012, 04:58
This struck me as more a polemic against a fraudulent election and liberal democracy more generally than an analysis of precisely what happened. It reminds of something a certain ex-professor of philosophy would write. but I have taken a quick stab at translating it so that non-spanish speakers may form their own opinions about the article.



The fraud has already taken place. It even has an absurd manner about it. Election day merely formally asserted its deadly reality. It is now apparant how fraudulent our "democratic elections" are, a theater whereby the main goal is to cloak with the veneer of legality a tyranical social order. The political parties indeed make up the mechanisms of subservience and displace the ontological-political struggle -as is inherent in a stratfied society - to serve the interests conducive to the socially dominant class; for they know, those charlatans, who rely on bread and circuses, who at times let us eat cakes.

Carlos Reygadas, the film director, more or less notes how "under democracy, several times we vote for the lesser of two evils, but this time, we've hit rock bottom." What Reygadas doesn't say, a fact which is already widely known, is that rock bottom is the order of teh day for democratic systems, including those that are considered "higly functional". Recall that the democratic processes assumes all our individual wills are completely abstracted into the entity we call the state. The political parties, those who are entrusted with the machinery of the state, envision a happy ending through the "general will". This concept is a convenient substitute for traditional notions like "a dictatorship of the majority in service of the majority". In short, under representative democracy only the ruling classes are served. Another film director, Alfonso Cuaron, added with considerable insight: "We call 21st century tyranny 'democracy'".

It is for these reasons the Federal Elections INstute (IFE) called on the candidates to assert to a fradulent process from start to finish. Strictly speaking, it was a call to the citeizenry to accept the rules of a vicious political process. This is, without any recourse to justfice, constuttional democracy, that we define as a "politics of small concessions, large extractions from the masses". It is no accident that among the demands made by the citizenry, quasi-journalists of substantive accomplishments like Augiluer Camin had insisted before the IFE that "All these [demands on the citizens] are neither physically nor legally possible". He simply failed to add: "... who understand that democracy has its irreconcilable limitations, which should be called out." It is thus par for the course that the IFE simply called upon candidates to pledge to respect the outcome of the vote. Moreover, on the other hand, they notably omitted the demands of the youth group YoSoy132 in their calls for a third presidental debate and the participation of this youth as poll-watchers.

The categorical imperatives (a Kantian phrase) of democracy: to know the iron law of the oligarchy, the unquestioning suppression of the citezenry, and the forced consensus as a strategy to seek strategic withdrawal.

In the face of certain fraud, what is to be done on the first of July. One of the more brazen ways to interpret the results comes from a feminist collective. As they said: "I wish that AMLO won so that I could debate with him my positions. I would have rather have converted myself to an opponent of AMLO than anyone else).

In short, the lesser of two evils is a farce.