You attack me by calling me a democrat and then you reveal you haven't even read Lenin. Typical. Every available means to go among the masses must be used. https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/aug/28.htm Unbreakable ties with the mass of the workers, the ability to agitate unceasingly among them, to participate in every strike, to respond to every demand of the masses—this is the chief thing for a Communist Party, especially in such a country as Britain, where until now (as incidentally is the case in all imperialist countries) participation in the socialist movement, and the labour movement generally, has been confined chiefly to a thin top crust of workers, the labour aristocracy, most of whom are thoroughly and hopelessly spoiled by reformism and are held back by bourgeois and imperialist prejudices. Without a struggle against this stratum, without the destruction of every trace of its prestige among the workers, without convincing the masses of the utter bourgeois corruption of this stratum, there can be no question of a serious communist workers’ movement. This applies to Britain, France, America and Germany. Those working-class revolutionaries who make parliamentarism the centre of their attacks are quite right inasmuch as these attacks serve to express their denial in principle of bourgeois parliamentarism and bourgeois democracy. Soviet power, the Soviet republic—this is what the workers’ revolution has put in place of bourgeois democracy, this is the form of transition from capitalism to socialism, the form of the dictatorship of the proletariat. And criticism of parliamentarism is not only legitimate and necessary, as giving the case for the transition to Soviet power, but is quite correct, as being the recognition of the historically conditional and limited character of parliamentarism, its connection with capitalism and capitalism alone, of its progressive character as compared with the Middle Ages, and of its reactionary character as compared with Soviet power. But the critics of parliamentarism in Europe and America, when they are anarchists or anarcho-syndicalists, are very often wrong insofar as they reject all participation in elections and parliamentary activity. Here they simply show their lack of revolutionary experience. We Russians, who have lived through two great revolutions in the twentieth century, are well aware what importance parliamentarism can have, and actually does have during a revolutionary period in general and in the very midst of a revolution in particular. Bourgeois parliaments must be abolished and replaced by Soviet bodies. There is no doubt about that. There is no doubt now, after the experience of Russia, Hungary, Germany and other countries, that this absolutely must take place during a proletarian revolution. Therefore, systematically to prepare the working masses for this, to explain to them in advance the importance of Soviet power, to conduct propaganda and agitation for it—all this is the absolute duty of the worker who wants to be a revolutionary in deeds. But we Russians fulfilled that task, operating in the parliamentary arena, too. In the tsarist, fake, landowners’ Duma our representatives knew how to carry on revolutionary and republican propaganda. In just the same way Soviet propaganda can and must be carried on in and from within bourgeois parliaments.

From November 4rd 2024: Ask yourself this, what is democracy worth? When you are starving to death, when your baby is starving to death, because you haven't eaten in three days, four days, five days, you lost count, and you can't make milk anymore. The water's poison, so what little that you can give your child is just killing them. What does democracy mean in a situation like that? Who's going to drop the next bomb on you? What does democracy mean when you're pulling your only son out of the rubble? And you can hear his screams, his voice growing fainter and fainter as the rubble is crushing his soul, his fucking ribs, his legs, his heart, his organs. Why is the rubble crushing this boy that you have raised for the last 10 years of your life? Because an American-made bomb was sent there. What is democracy worth when the bomb drops and your hands are rubbed raw from ripping apart the rubble and just trying to do everything you can, with every strength a human being can muster to rescue your only son, your only child? When the bomb hits, it takes you out too. And the very last things you hear, the very last things you hear as you bleed out on the rubble that was once your home: the muffled screams of your son under the rubble. What is democracy worth? -Erik Houdini on "Who do you endorse this election?"

there's a darkmode button under the spanish option, i do like the red quite a bit but know it can be abrasive