https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/download/what-itd.pdf

https://www.marxists.org/ebooks/lenin/state-and-revolution.pdf

tldr build parallel power structures under the purview of a revolutionary socialist organization outside of the current bourgeois democracy. Strengthen them and grow them out as long as the bourgeois state allows, then in a moment of crisis seize state power to oversee a transition from capitalism to socialism.

There’s also the anarchist strategy which is similar in essence but with the crucial difference of laying out the parallel power structures horizontally such that no central power nor state organs exist.

Recognizing the reality of the situation, calling it out as a shit sandwich, and encouraging others to act in the way that reduces harm the most with an actual chance to succeed

Yeah I agree, more people gotta join Hamas

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hitler-comes-to-power

There are some misconceptions about how Hitler came to power. It is important to understand that:

Hitler did not seize power in a coup; and Hitler was not directly elected to power.

Rather, Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power through Germany’s legal political processes. According to the 1919 German constitution, the position of chancellor was appointed by the president.

Guess Germans should’ve voted harder then. Oh wait, there was a Communist Party who attempted a revolution before Hitler came to power and they failed because the Freikorps killed them? Well I wonder who started the Freikorps…

Yes, that’s right, and Kamala promised she wouldn’t change anything about what Biden was doing too (i.e. exactly the same thing).

I don’t understand why the gaudy Trump Gaza real estate deal is supposed to be a point in favor of Biden or Kamala, either. Would it be any better if after exterminating the same number of Palestinians, Kamala did a land acknowledgement in Gaza instead of building a Trump Tower? The reality is that if Israel is capable of seizing land in Gaza to build a riviera they’d do it regardless of which party is in power in Washington DC. Their strategy hasn’t changed at all since Jan 2025 when Trump stepped in.

Oh I guess Dr German History decided to show up and teach us all a lesson about how voting against Hitler would have stopped Hitler. Because Hitler definitely got into power because he won a democratic election, right?

She promised nothing with regards to Palestine. She said she would not be fundamentally different from Joe Biden in any way. Joe Biden always granted Israel unconditional and full support. There is nothing Israel asked for during the Biden administration that they didn’t get; and I don’t think there’s any reason to think a Harris administration would change on that end.

So why shouldn’t we believe that Kamala would kill just as many people as Trump? Because she isn’t an old decrepit white dude like the other 2 guys?

Then you will need to be aware that by not voting for the more left candidate, we will have a far right government for a couple of cycles at least. This will cost lives and further entrench them into power.

And yet when the moderate liberal candidate wins and nothing changes, the lesson most regular people learn is that liberals suck and the left gets lumped in with that because this strategy of always ceding ground to the liberals makes the left indistinguishable from libs. It also results in the genocide in Gaza and similar things in the future as climate collapse advances and the contradictions get sharper. So why is there a duty for the left to neuter itself, associate with liberals who actively oppose the socialist agenda, and be complicit in genocide with our tiny amount of power?

WTF kind of organizing are you doing that the end goal is an election?

Uh oh, getting too close to tankie logic!

they constantly scrutinize others’ supposed moral purity and looking for skeletons in the closet.

Yeah just several hundred thousand dead Palestinians in Gaza, you know, a little skeleton in the closet. A tiny blemish. But all the adults in the room ought to just get over it and focus on what’s important: making America’s armed forces the most lethal army in the world, and student loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients who operated a business in an underserved neighborhood for 3 or more years.

Ok tankie, in this house we only think in terms of the choices that our benevolent masters lay out for us. Criticism of the system itself is a bridge too far.

Okay just gonna sweep Gaza under the rug in no time at all then.

One mayoral race in an extremely liberal city where the establishment candidate is a decrepit sex pest with a million scandals behind him is enough to make you forget the 2020 and 2016 Democratic presidential primaries, the lack of presidential primaries in 2024, and the way every single congressperson who does anything against Israel gets taken out by candidates that receive absurd donations from AIPAC? Oh I guess Mamdani won so the system works as intended…

Thanks for voting to continue bombing them.

I went out to vote for Claudia de la Cruz in 2024. Are y’all yonna find another group of people to genocide in 2028? Because I’ll stand in solidarity with them too.

What a reddit response to a reasonable criticism of your garbage liberal meme.

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Join an actual socialist org and stop trying to fix the Democratic Party, you’re only wasting your energy.

It isn’t. That’s not the lesson at all. It’s supposed to show the difference between consequentialist moral codes and non-consequentialism. Ironically, consequentialism is already assumed to be correct when people post these memes.

Dress it how you want, a vote for genocide is a vote for genocide.

An accurate picture here would have several hundred thousand Palestinians on both sides of the track. Not to mention it would still have trans people and immigrants on both sides of the track because both of those groups saw attacks on their rights under the Biden administration.

To make it abstract and intellectual like redditors like it: when the trolley problem has 3 people on the tracks and 1 on the other it seems like a no-brainer, but do you really think the same logic applies when there’s 500 people on one side and 498 on the other?

Also keep in mind, the actual political system is more complex that one election. If a candidate is completely blown out the party will know it has to switch its platform for the next election. If a candidate gets a decent number of votes then it doesn’t switch its platform. If you voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 you effectively let the Democrats know that genocide is negotiable and you are willing to let it slide. If you held your vote you exerted a bit of pressure for Democrats to stop supporting genocide.

Why?