"The truth is we live in a “dictatorship of the capitalist class”—that is, ultimately the things they absolutely insist on (such as their ability to continue to rule society) will be enforced through violence whenever necessary, regardless of legality.
Elections cannot be used to end their rule. The undeniable proof of this is the 40+ governments the US military and intelligence have worked to overthrow in the past 100 years, which happens like clockwork whenever some government in the Third World creates too much trouble for US global rule and imperialist profits. An equally clear proof is in the massive, disproportionate, and often illegal repression and murder wielded against domestic movements demanding deep reform whenever they get big enough, even if they are committed to nonviolence.
But since the ruling class are willing to use violence to get their way in some situations, why do they mess around with the electoral system—why don’t they simply always use violence to get everything they want? They don’t always use violence because it is far cheaper, easier, and more stable to use the electoral system to suppress the emergence of revolutionary movements in the population, and even to suppress independent non-revolutionary movements that might cost them profits or weaken their rule."