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The premise of the article is all wrong. The question is not what an individual anarchist or a few isolated anarchists should do during an election. I don't really care; it doesn't make much difference either way. The question is what we anarchists advocate should be done by big movements and large numbers of people: the unions, the African-American community, LGBT people, organized feminists, the environmental/ecological movement, etc., etc. I say that we should openly advocate that such powerful forces (which are generally the base of the Democratic Party) should not put their energy, money, and human power into the Democrats or any other electoral activity. Instead they should be doing union organizing, community organizing, local strikes and general strikes, mass civil disobedience, popular street demonstrations, and general hell raising. This is the direction in which to go, the only effective way to stop the right and to move toward a revolutionary perspective.

In 1932, the Social Democrats should have sought an alliance with the Communists and other leftists to organize a general strike if Hitler were elected. They should have, for several years before this, been organizing united front actions to drive the Nazis off the streets, break up their meetings, shut down their newspapers, and defend all left meetings, halls, and papers against the Nazis (such a strategy had been advocated by the anarchs-syndicalists in Italy in the 1920s against the Fascists, but the Socialists and Communists would not participate). Social problems are not solved through electoral activities.