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**Desiring Oppression ** Welfare is the alternative to policing, however it is a more sinister tactic of control. By conceding ground to the working class, the government creates the illusion that the commodity spectacle can offer fulfillment. Keeping that small specter of hope in things getting just a little better works to the aid of the ruling class, tying potential revolutionaries to reformist tactics. An overhaul or abolition of the entire system seems a distant dream compared to the small pay raise your union offers. Unions work to the benefit of the capitalists by quelling revolutionary desire, and providing a safe (reformist) means for workers to channel their frustration. Unions have become a part of the system, another bureaucracy with a goal only of perpetuating its own existence and preserving the status quo.  If voting changed anything, then it would be illegal. It is safer (to existing power relations) to give people a small power and have them think the government works in their interest, than to be explicit in its goals of enslavement and conquest. It is easier to put cops in people's heads then have one on every street corner. It is easy to think that government has become more humane as time passes, but in reality it has just passed its policing role to the people themselves. The people police themselves, and this is beneficial to the powers-that-be because passivity is better to the government than unrest. Democracy at its best is tyranny of the majority, and at its worst is an illusion that makes people think choosing the people who rule them gives them real power over their lives.  By having people think that government is the extension of their own power, it makes them desire their own oppression. Power however, does not stem from only the ruling class, it is all around us in our everyday relationships with others and ourselves. We need not beg others to give us power, we have only to go out and take it for ourselves. 