Workers have been losing their faith in elections and the political process for decades.

It is the job of communists to help them develop this instinctive aversion into a proper understanding of just why it is that this system is so incapable of serving their interests.

With every year, and with every month, that the long over- due social revolution in Western Europe
and America, for which the world war of 1914 already gave the signal-that is, the ending of the
private ownership of the means of production which inevitably produces the increasing
contradictions, anarchy, destruction and barbarism of the present day-is delayed, denied and
postponed, the world situation grows more desperate, and the whole future of society is brought
into question.

Till now we have been considering the estrangement, the alienation of the worker only in one of its aspects , i.e., the worker’s relationship to the products of his labor. But the estrangement is manifested not only in the result but in the act of production, within the producing activity, itself. How could the worker come to face the product of his activity as a stranger, were it not that in the very act of production he was estranging himself from himself? The product is after all but the summary of the activity, of production. If then the product of labor is alienation, production itself must be active alienation, the alienation of activity, the activity of alienation. In the estrangement of the object of labor is merely summarized the estrangement, the alienation, in the activity of labor itself.

Karl Marx
Economic and Philosophical Manunoscripts of 1844.