Messages, appeals and statements of Comintern (SH)

Democracy for who? and the election boycott

In many places across the globe we see that the circus of capitalist elections has come into full swing, in some cases it has already ended in predictable results, the fascist method of borgias class rule is gaining in strength. The bourgeois democracies which represent themselves as the supposed "most free system in the world" is the greatest sharade ever pulled before the masses of the world, to paraphrase comrade Stalin when the capitalists speak for freedom we must ask ourselves for whom do they want this freedom? The answer is, of course, for themselves. They want the freedom of poverty for the masses and the freedom of wars of imperialist aggression and most of all they want the freedom to exploit the working masses to the bone and to prolong their class rule for as long as possible. In many parts of the world we can not even say a true bourgeois democracy even exists, behind the shouts of freedom and choice stands the jackboots and cudgel of the fascistic methods of bourgeois class rule which the capitalists used as a bulwark, the last resort, to save themselves from the crushing weight of the world proletariat. Across the world the mask of bourgeois democracy is already slipping and the true face of the bourgeois, the face of fascism, is being shown. This is why we call for a boycott of the capitalist elections, not just in America or Europe, but across the world! Do not let them trick you and suppress your power by controlling it in the great game of capitalist elections. They have shut us, the working masses of the world, out of this game. There are no truly proletarian parties represented on the ballots anywhere, so today the only way to win is to not play the game at all. join us comrades, join the Comintern (SH) in the struggle against the capitalist elections and fight not to win one seat or the other but to smash capitalism once and for all in the great proletarian world revolution and from its ashes we will build socialism and eventually communism where we are free from classes as a whole and the necessity of democracy, where every man is his own representative.

This does not mean however that all hope is lost for democracy If we look to proletarian democracies of the Soviet Union (1913-1953) and the PSR of Albania (1944-1985) we see a true democracy of the working class and its allies. Theses here were not the "democracies" of the bourgeois factions jockeying for power and debating amongst themselves the correct manner to prolong their class dictatorship but rather democracies of the proletariat were the working masses choose from amongst themselves their best and brightest and placed their full faith in them to lead the path forward and represent the will of the working masses of their districts and localities before the assembly of the working class and with the guidance and full support of the party of the proletariat. This is the democracy that we fight for a true democracy let us not hear cries from the mouths of the capitalists exploiters of "undemocratic praticies" because the parties of the bourgeoisie and their lackeys ruthlessly and rightfully crushed by proletarian power. this is after all the goal of proletarian democracy to allow the workers and toilers to truly choose from their own ranks their own leaders and not select from a ballot sheet whatever boss they think will whip them less.

Today the Communist International (Stalinist-Hoxhaists) is the only party who fights, across the globe, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, for the end of wage slavery and oppression and for a true Proletarian democracy.