Julio Huato wrote:
What does this mean? It means that the communists don't process their
differences with respect to the overall direction of motion of the
class from somewhere outside the class, from outside the framework
(ideological, political -- institutional if you wish) within which,
through which the class is currently moving -- e.g. the electoral
system, the Democratic Party. They don't sit by the fence.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm
Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers
must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to
gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and
party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the
empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers'
candidates will split the Democratic Party and offer the forces of
reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final
analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the
proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is
infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the
presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body.
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
London, March 1850
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