Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or...
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or...
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or...
Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or...
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The power to vote for the leaders of your country does not make you free. The people who are voted in to govern you are still masters, and they don’t owe you anything. Slaves do not have freedom, freedom is something that belongs to those who own them. The power to vote does not give anybody any more reason to act as you would like them to act.

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