Marxist-influenced political movements have a predilection toward election-rigging and ballot-box stuffing because they think "false consciousness" makes elections a joke anyway. They don't hesitate to cheat a system they view as inherently corrupt in the service of Justice.
This is one of the things that makes Marxism so durable - it gives adherents a moral framework for breaking the rules, subverting society, and winning at all costs. A key element is the belief that people are bought or brainwashed by the corrupt order, tricked into voting for it.
Since capitalism instills people with "false consciousness" - tricks them into thinking they're happy and free, programs them to irrationally fight against socialists who only want to help them - their votes aren't really honest, so stealing the vote is not really a crime.
Marxists think they're not disenfranchising people by stealing elections - they're *liberating* people who don't know what's good for them. They're shattering false consciousness by stealing your ballot and using it to cast the "correct" vote, the one you can't make for yourself.
You hear echoes of this thinking in mainstream American left-wing dialogue ALL THE TIME. They constantly marvel that poor saps in heartland states would "vote against their interests" by voting against Democrats. The anti-Democrat voter is bought and paid for by the Evil Rich.
Obama's infamous smear of heartland voters - "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations" - is classic Marxist false consciousness doctrine.
So is the feral Left leaping to strip conservative blacks, women, Hispanics, etc. of their racial identity for voting the "wrong" way. If you didn't vote for Joe Biden, you ain't black! They treat brilliant men like Clarence Thomas or Ben Carson like mental defectives.
If your political movement really thinks nobody in their right minds, nobody with a functioning moral compass, nobody who understands their place in the class and racial struggle, could possibly vote against you, why not steal their ballots? Why not rig elections on their behalf?
If those people understood the Marxist dialectic the way you do, if they understood how capitalism is a lie and only socialism offers true freedom, they'd never vote against you, right? They're only doing it because they've been tricked, or bought off by evil capitalists.
So you're doing them a favor by rigging the election. You're not really disenfranchising them - notice how left-wingers recoil in shock and disgust when you tell them voter fraud disenfranchises honest voters. They really don't see it that way.
Marxists see themselves as champions and guardians of the General Will, the will of the people, the needs of society. The dirty little secret is that democratic elections are NOT the right way to divine the will of the people. Elections are corrupted by systemic racism, etc.
Only properly trained Marxists know the true will of the people, and they need total power to defeat corrupt special interests so they can implement it. Notice how the Left openly says no one should be allowed to vote against a growing list of agenda items like climate change.
If you're stewed in that messianic political mindset, you're not going to let the evil System defend itself by buying votes and tricking folks into thinking "freedom" is better than socialism. You're not cheating by rigging the election - you're keeping THEM from cheating. /end
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