Alternatively reform can provoke a Thermidorian Reaction in the vein of Pinochet, which can be prepared for and used as a pretext for a major crackdown on reactionaries and the consolidation of socialism.
Marx the Reformist
Henry Bailey
Camden Jones
Wew this really BTFOs ML twitter
Jordan Clark
Read Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder. His idea of how to approach parliament is extremely different from your dogshit opportunism.
Jace Bell
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Henry Diaz
It is blasphemy to misinterpret Prophet Marx (pbuh).
Mason Harris
It's pretty clear (to me) that modern bourgeois states are far different than democratic republics of Marx's day. For one thing, the machinery of state (the "state apparatus") was far more limited back then. Contrast that with a modern state apparatus possessing unfathomable powers of surveillence that and massive bureaucracies. Marx and Engels would have seen democratic republics differently if they would have been alive to witness COINTELPRO and so on.
Robert Cooper
that excerpt is literally FROM LWC you fucking shitposter
marxists.org
Jonathan Ward
That's literally the work I quoted. I have read the entirety of it, multiple times. In it Lenin shows a much more nuanced and rational consideration of the tactical question "should communists participate in bourgeois parliaments?" than the average ML of today, who reflexively shouts "opportunism" like a fucking moron whenever electoralism is discussed (and at the same time imagines him/herself to be upholding the true Leninism or whatever).
I literally just quoted the work you're talking about. I didn't put any spin on it or inject my own "opportunism" into it. I don't know what point you think you're making. In case it was aimed at the other person you replied to: you're salty someone on Zig Forums criticized ML twitter? You need to go back.
Henry Adams
To be fair though there’s a distinction between tactically using electoralism to further revolutionary goals and trying to bring about socialism through reform. Lenin advocated the former but rejected the latter.
William Anderson
Yea, I never implied that Lenin was a pacifist who thought communism would be achieved by electing a communist president of the United States.