Communist Strategy & Tactics: How Marxists Use Bourgeois Elections

"How Marxists Use Bourgeois Elections" is a part of a series of 4 booklets on communist strategy & tactics, which you can purchase here for $15. These booklets can be read in any order: How Marxists Use Bourgeois Elections Lessons from the Communist International Marxism, Mutual Aid and Direct Action The Role of the Revolutionary Party People frequently ask communists: who are you running for office? For this reason, Wellred is publishing this collection of articles putting forward the communist view of capitalist elections and showing how we can use them to advance the working-class struggle. Our approach to bourgeois elections flows from the Marxist understanding of the state. Communists have studied the history of class society from its earliest foundations to the capitalist era. We are not naive. The state is always a tool for the ruling class to maintain its system of oppression and exploitation. Under bourgeois democracy, the population does not really decide how to run soc