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It's funny you should bring this up because i know someone else who also asked this same question once upon a time: "Should Revolutionaries Work in Reactionary Trade Unions?". Of course the conditions today are very different so you cannot simply transfer their conclusions one to one to your situation, but it helps us understand how a revolutionary ought to think about and discuss these sorts of questions.
Study your conditions, analyze them and apply the dialectical materialist method and draw your own conclusions.
Lenin is so based.
For me the central passage of that text is this:
"We can (and must) begin to build socialism, not with abstract human material, or with human material specially prepared by us, but with the human material bequeathed to us by capitalism. True, that is no easy matter, but no other approach to this task is serious enough to warrant discussion."
It is in effect a complete rejection of idealism, the recognition that we must work with the material reality at hand and not with the fantasy of an idealized revolutionary subject which we have constructed in our minds.