communists do not eschew all participation in politics out of some all-encompassing "anti-politics" stance. nor do we advocate abstention for voting in all cases—although in many cases it is a perfectly appropriate choice. in canada today, the only so-called "communists" ever on ballots are entryist trots in the ndp and the stalinoid groups called cpc and cpc-ml, and i am not impressed by these consistent losers at all so i abstain from voting. if a genuine communist party were to make a bid for a seat in parliament, i would be all for it, but that is hardly the most effective course of action for communists at the present.

rather, it is the mass organization of the working class that we need to work on, in part because without it we are not likely to win elections, but mostly because winning an election has almost nothing to do with proletarian revolution.