Responsibility

Q. Why do people vote against their economic interests?

A. Let us recall these words from Lenin: "Is it because the economic struggle does not 'stimulate" them to this, because such political activity does not 'promise palpable results,' because it produces little that is 'positive'? No. to advance this argument, we repeat, is merely to shift the blame to the shoulders of others, to blame the masses for our own philistinism, We must blame ourselves, our remoteness from the mass movement; we must blame ourselves for being unable as yet to organize a sufficiently wide, striking and rapid exposure of these outrages."