no amount of pushing the existing political system "leftward" is congruent with the aim of a social revolution for which communists such as myself advocate.

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no amount of pushing the existing political system "leftward" is congruent with the aim of a social revolution for which communists such as myself advocate. in fact, the existence of a legal left no longer even rests on a mass-organized working class like the old social democracy did a century ago. in the absence of such a level of organization, the modern legal left is nothing more than a tool of class pacification that offers peanuts to working-class voters in exchange for shutting up and leaving politics to the politicians.

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.