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Participating in bourgeoisie elections on revolutionary terms or helping improve the material conditions of others? (lemmygrad.ml)
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Hi all, I haven't posted here before but I had a question about two things that seem somewhat conflicting to me? I'm a fledgling Marxist and I remember reading that Lenin had said something about how we should only participate in bourgeoisie elections in our own revolutionary party, but I think he maybe also said something about helping the material conditions of others (instead of being a accelerationist) . How does one do both of these things or is there a balance? I haven't yet read "What is to be done?" but I imagine maybe reading that would help me get a better understanding of these things? Please let me know if i'm misremembering this, thank you :)

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[–] SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 4 days ago

Our marxist party participates in every election we can to get our faces known by the public and to influence political discourse. It also simply brings in money for the party.

At the same time behind closed doors we acknowledge that it will not be the way to bring change and we try to build the lass consciousness by going to the factories and other workplaces to get the workers on our side. Real change comes from building a workers movement and you do that by staying involved with the workers. We have local action groups to do that who can tackle local problems and get local people to join us.

Basically the politic side is just some PR machine because realistically we will never get in serious positions of powers that way. We are constantly hindered in these ways.