Participation in Liberal Democracy

Socialists are encouraged to participate in a liberal democracy under capitalist state#. This is to guide and educate the proletariat in preparation of taking over the state power. However, it is not saying that winning the majority in the parliament would result in transforming the capitalist state into a socialist state. The purpose of organising the working class is not to attenuate the contradiction of capitalism that will bring to its inevitable collapse#, but to realise that such social reform will not bring the fundamental change to the current way of living.

The parliamentary practice is not about bringing immediate benefits to the working class, but to use the platform to increase the class awareness and consciousness of the proletariat, work alongside with 202205012054, and organise them as a class. If we only have short term goals, then what will come is the practice of compensation, weaponising working class interests as our own political bargaining chip.

As the proletariat realise that liberal parliamentarism and trade union will not bring the expected social change that could end the suffering of their own, the revolution will become the obvious choice for them.

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On State

The capitalists use the state in order to exploit the workers and maximise their profits. They refine it in a way that workers could not comprehend and participate, so they could rule in obscurity rather in transparency where they could choose freely on the so-called representatives among them. Furthermore, as long as the rule of capital, that is the justification of the private ownership on means of production, still imposed on the working class, the capitalists can still oppress the working class by making them poor without passing any legislation. Any reform on such state is the same as any passed laws in order to oppress the working class or #strengthen itself, which is merely an extension of itself to serve only the capitalists’ interests. Even if those reforms are #benefiting the working class, it is just a coincidence that capitalist interests are aligned with society interests.