Belated Election Day Report
By Maxwell Frederickson and Angel McCloud

Last Tuesday was the Canadian Federal election, and even though the results have been well-known for some time, there remains to be told another side of the story – the people's story. What the corporate media would like for you to believe is that Stephane Dion’s Liberals lost both because the public lacked faith in Dion’s leadership capabilities, and he failed to properly explain his highly controversial Green Shift. What they failed to tell you was the truth – Dion’s loss was, in fact, the first telltale sign of the coming proletariat revolution.

Politics are being polarized across the globe. In Latin America there is a growing leftist trend, while in almost every wealthy nation in the Global North the neoclassical capitalists are tightening their grip on ideology as a whole. The fascists of the 21st century have no need for explicit coercion, as the bourgeoisie are readily joining with, or giving up their freedom to a small aristocratic elite. The ideological center is being moved to the right by the corporations and their army of mathematicians, and the bourgeoisie are blind to the mechanics of their slavery. The middle class is disappearing, and soon there will only be the workers and the capitalists – class warfare will ensue.

This is notably true in Canada, where the bourgeoisie have sewn the seeds of their own demise by re-electing the neoconservative technocrat Stephen Harper. The true lovers of freedom, Marxists such as us, were dancing in the streets upon Harper’s victory. You would think it would be otherwise, but it was so. The move of the political nexus from center to right will inevitably push the workers to the left as their rights are further and further abused by the rightist elite. The triumph of freedom and the proletariat is inevitable, as it is rooted in history.

Alas, we are not here to preach theory, as history will prove us right in the near future regardless of whether we are believed or not. Rather, we have a report from the front lines that urgently needs to be presented to the people. We hope that in seeing this report, the people might understand the inevitability of the revolution, and they may then choose to fight with the workers, and not the oppressors. On election night, we camouflaged ourselves in the garb of the middle class and casually observed the goings on of a typical voting station in the suburbs of the GTA. Here are our original tape-recorded musings, dutifully typed up for your reading pleasure.


Maxwell: We have just arrived at the voting station. It is ten past five, and there is currently a steady trickle of voters coming and going.

Angel: One woman who just entered is pushing a stroller and holding the hand of her son. She is wearing a stylish blue blouse and a short black skirt, has her hair tied up, and is covered in a fine layer of makeup.

Maxwell: No doubt a Conservative voter, Angel.

Angel: Most certainly. Her husband, who in all probability beats her, has actually just strutted into the room with an oppressive air. He is now guiding her gently towards the correct voting station, and inevitably to her sad demise.

Maxwell: Yes, capitalism has the female sex in a precarious state indeed. An elderly gentleman has just now left a voting booth and inserted his ballot into a box, and is now ambling towards the exit with a smug grin on his face.

Angel: He must be at least sixty, and is wearing a very comfortable cotton sweater. And he certainly must be comfortable after sixty years of living off of the plight of the workers. The oppression is just dripping from the walls, Maxwell.

Maxwell: And speaking of oppression, one of the apparently “unbiased” Elections Canada employees has just beckoned a confused looking young professional female towards his table.

Angel: Yes, yes I see it all, Maxwell. I can only imagine what horrible, oppressive lies he is telling her right now! Perhaps he is encouraging a vote for lower taxes and deregulation, all of the hallmarks of the Conservative Party. Or, worse yet, perhaps he is suggesting a strategic vote for the Liberals in order to fend off the neo-con reactionaries, and also the ensuing proletarian revolution!

Maxwell: One can only imagine the oppression that poor woman feels as she calmly walks towards the voting booth with her election ballot in hand.

Angel: Mind you, it’s her own fault for propelling the inherently unjust mechanisms of capitalism in the name of accumulating private property!

Maxwell: Yes indeed, Angel. She herself bears all of the marks of a scrutinizing, self-interested member of the bourgeoisie who lacks any empathy whatsoever. It is truly sad.

Angel: But look! A grizzled, middle-aged man has just entered the room in denim jeans, a weathered black t-shirt and a denim vest.

Maxwell: Perhaps a representative of the working class, isolated here in the suburbs amongst the tyranny of the bourgeoisie?

Angel: He could very well be, Maxwell! Oh, wait, what’s this button on his vest? Ah, that’s a shame.

Maxwell: What is it?

Angel: His button says, “Soft on crime doesn’t work.” Sadly, this man has been oppressed to the point of corruption and will be voting for the neo-cons tonight.

Maxwell: What a pity. It seems that some of the proletariat still lack class consciousness, and will remain divided until they see one another as comrades in the historical class conflict designed to render them impotent before the forces of capitalism.

Angel: Uh oh, we’re being pointed at. It seems that one of the agents of oppression has heard our conversation and is gathering a posse of reactionaries to expel us from the building.

Maxwell: Let us leave then, with dignity, before they have a chance to oppress our freedom to be here.


And so we left with looks of consternation, mulling over the state of affairs in this so-called “democracy” of ours. We can only hope that this article, this revelation, will open the eyes of the people, and that the people will not be coerced and silenced by the hypocritical ideological tyrants of the bourgeoisie. For there is only one route to freedom, and the people cannot locate it by listening to the one-sided, shallow-minded corporate media. Rather, they must listen to the voices of freedom -- the voices of the people*.


*People do not include corporations, tyrants, conservatives, pseudo-Marxist intellectuals, imperialists, national socialists, nihilists, fascists, pet owners, racists, religious institutions and their respective clergies and zealots, self-righteous assholes or hypocrites.