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What do communist parties do while they await the revolution? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe this is a semantic thing, but communist parties actually don't force revolutions. A revolutionary situation from capitalist crisis must occur for that to happen. This is clarified by Lenin. Trying to force a revolution before a truly revolutionary situation is an error ultra-left parties and orgs do and it ends up alienating them from the masses.

(Good) communist parties aren't passive though; they build revolutionary consciousness, provide alternative systems for addressing people's needs, and form networks with other organizations and unions and ultimately win over as much as the working masses and their allies that they can, so that when a revolutionary situation occurs the people have a party to turn towards. Communists don't wait; they organize and prepare.