The CPC allied militarily with the KMT against imperialist Japan. Absolutely nothing you cited indicates that the CPC at any point intended on working within the existing system. This is basic history. The CPC is a democratic organization set up along the lines of socialist democracy, but that’s a conversation for another day, the point is that they never at any point intended on winning power within the existing system. From the very outset, they declared it necessary to overthrow the bourgeoisie through revolution.
I also never once said I see voting as essential. I see it as potentially useful if a socialist candidate is running, but am under no illusions that they will ever win, nor am I under any illusions that they would even be able to do anything if they won. There is absolutely no gap between what I believe and what I do.
Again, I’ll restate, so that hopefully it will finally sink-in:
I want to build the revolutionary party, educate the broader working class, and prepare for the moment when the capitalist class is weak and can no longer govern, siezing the moment to help the working class take power. That’s it. No more, and no less than that. Not only do I express that I want this, but I actively work for it.
At no point is voting ever necessary for this process. The extent to which voting is useful is the extent to which it can serve as advertisement for people to join the revolutionary party, not for the revolutionary party to gain power electorally. Whether people vote for the revolutionary party or not has little to no impact on the ability for the revolutionary party to take power in the course of revolution.
Do you genuinely not understand this, or are you just trolling at this point? I’m being genuine here. You’re so confidently incorrect that it’s concerning.
The CPC allied militarily with the KMT against imperialist Japan. Absolutely nothing you cited indicates that the CPC at any point intended on working within the existing system. This is basic history. The CPC is a democratic organization set up along the lines of socialist democracy, but that’s a conversation for another day, the point is that they never at any point intended on winning power within the existing system. From the very outset, they declared it necessary to overthrow the bourgeoisie through revolution.
I also never once said I see voting as essential. I see it as potentially useful if a socialist candidate is running, but am under no illusions that they will ever win, nor am I under any illusions that they would even be able to do anything if they won. There is absolutely no gap between what I believe and what I do.
Again, I’ll restate, so that hopefully it will finally sink-in:
I want to build the revolutionary party, educate the broader working class, and prepare for the moment when the capitalist class is weak and can no longer govern, siezing the moment to help the working class take power. That’s it. No more, and no less than that. Not only do I express that I want this, but I actively work for it.
At no point is voting ever necessary for this process. The extent to which voting is useful is the extent to which it can serve as advertisement for people to join the revolutionary party, not for the revolutionary party to gain power electorally. Whether people vote for the revolutionary party or not has little to no impact on the ability for the revolutionary party to take power in the course of revolution.
Do you genuinely not understand this, or are you just trolling at this point? I’m being genuine here. You’re so confidently incorrect that it’s concerning.