Green - An environmentalist community

I want rid of this awful system, but I don't believe votes are meaningless. And I don't believe that changing this current system necessarily leads to a worse one. One of the main problems is that our voting system really isn't that democratic. The solution is more democracy, not getting rid of it for new flavors of authoritarianism. In fact member-led party democracy is one of the only defenses that a mass org has against infiltrators and sabotage.

In case I am reading your comment correctly, the idea that revolutions are necessarily atrocious, bloody, mass-murder sprees is something that benefits the ruling class. Its two sided: that the world would be worse if they weren't running it, and that because their revolutions were necessarily bloody and head-choppy, that the workers revolution would be worse, because workers are worse than capitalists. We are made to internalize a huge amount of self hate, because

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas

And the capitalists have to hate the workers.

Workers are basically everyone who isn't a capitalist owner, and maybe some people who are small capitalists, like owner-operated small businesses. Except the capitalists love war and death. The workers hate it. No genuine mass worker revolution has ever been nearly as bloody as the capitalist war.

Maybe I just think I can have cake and eat it. But I'm no dummy, and I'm not alone. While overthrowing the ruling class will surely be a long difficult process, we needn't despair at its necessity. At least that's my opinion. But getting to that point will be extremely difficult.