cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8485777
Burn all US politicians
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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What?
it's called satire
Of what? If you're ideologically opposed to voting in bourgeois elections, read what one of those goo-goo-gaa-gaa Marxist books had to say on the subject
I have read it. And either you're just cynically referencing an argument you haven't read yourself, or you're missing two key points of what Lenin's saying there. First, he's not talking about voting for 'the lesser of two evils' he's talking about voting for an explicitly socialist party with revolutionary politics. And the point of doing that isn't to do democratic socialism, it's to demonstrate to the masses the conflict between liberal democracy and actual liberatory politics. The ruling class would never allow a peaceful surrender of their power so a truly socialist party would be stymied and sabotaged by all methods, dirty and illegal included.
What you're arguing has nothing to do with what Lenin's arguing in that link.
That's awfully presumptuous. His argument is to cater your suite of strategies to the citizenry you're surrounded by, and their class consciousness. Strategies ill-suited to the material conditions you find yourself in do not help your cause. Insofar as the proletariat is invested in the system, you must use that system.
Yes, obviously, endeavor to enlighten them. But the people are slow learners, and just because your leftist friends are ready to derail the tram does not reflect the class consciousness of your countrymen. Even the Germans in question had a higher level of class consciousness than modern Americans. Lenin's argument logically extends.
This is just bowing to sponteneity. The party's role is to raise the consciousness of the proletariat to their level, not to remain where the working classes are at. That's the purpose of political parties, to organize and create proletarian intellectuals as a counter to bourgeois intellectuals. Otherwise the proletariat stays at the level of trade union consciousness if it has no means to see the political struggle as a whole.
Stop dragging Lenin through the mud to justify supporting imperialists.
This is word salad