Non-Voting
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We ourselves are responsible for our own slavery when either through fear or the desire for an untroubled life, we elect authorities who proceed to promote evil. If we vote such people into power, then we have no right to condemn evil, as we ourselves help create it and legalize it.
– Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko in his Mass of May 1984 in Poland, in Grazyna Sikorska. Jerzy Popieluszko (1985), p. 73.
– Fr. Jerzy Popieluszko in his Mass of May 1984 in Poland, in Grazyna Sikorska. Jerzy Popieluszko (1985), p. 73.
- Non-Voting by Carl Watner
- Cultivate Your Own Garden
- Why I Would Not Vote Against Hitler by Wendy McElroy
- Why I Refuse to Register by anonymous
- Is Voting an Act of Violence? by Carl Watner
- Non-Voting as an Act of Secession by Hans Sherrer
- “Party Dialogue” from Neither Bullets nor Ballots
- Introduction from Dissenting Electorate
- Ethics of Voting by George H. Smith
- The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil by Carl Watner
- How To Vote For Liberty by Joe Sobran
- Nothing to Vote For (pdf) by Daniel Schwindt
Below is a series of articles on Non-Voting that The Voluntaryist will be emailing out to help combat the systemic violence encouraged every two years in the so-called United States of America. We invite new perspectives on this problem, so please contact us if you have found something you consider worthy of being added to this Series on Non-Voting.
- Introduction to the Non-Voting Series (November 2015) by Carl Watner
- The Superiority of Moral Power Over Political Power by Adin Ballou
- The Illegality, Immorality and Violence of All Political Action by Robert LeFevre
- The Non-Voter’s Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer
- Abstain from Beans by Robert LeFevre
- Arguments Against Political Action by John Pugsley
- Living Slavery And All That by Alan P. Koontz
- On Underwriting an Evil by Frank Chodorov
- Against Woman Suffrage by Lysander Spooner
- We Have to Do Something! by John Pugsley
- Political Methods vs. Nonviolent Resistance by Francis Tandy
- Delegitimize: Do Not Repeal by George Smith