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On 7/1/18 1:07 PM, Jason wrote:
Of course I didn’t meant to imply he ignored or we should ignore the relationships of various parties to various class forces, but even there, Lenin did not use the “clear class line” to refuse any electoral support or relationship, as one can see from the 1912 conference resolution he worked on and supported (https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1912/6thconf/efd.htm <https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1912/6thconf/efd.htm>), which called for “exposing the counter-revolutionary views of the bourgeois liberals (headed by the Cadet Party)” while still saying in specific circumstances an “agreement must be concluded to share the seats” with them.
This is not the first time I've heard about this 1912 stuff. Mike Ely brought it up when he was still running the Kasama Project to refute my claim that Lenin opposed blocs with the Cadets. I heard it again from Pham Binh on his way to becoming the most gung-ho Sanderista on the planet.
Here's my explanation of what Lenin was actually saying. It was only about an agreement on electors, not on supporting the Cadets in the way that people try to justify a vote for Bernie Sanders or any of these DSA candidates running as Democrats.
https://louisproyect.org/2010/09/30/did-the-bolsheviks-form-blocs-with-the-cadets/
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