Visualizing Congress

[Joe R. Golowka]

> But one difference between Engels and yourself, Nathan, is
> that Engels was a revolutionary.  While by no means averse to
> using electoral politics, he well understood its limitations,
> and he held that the working class must prepare to seize
> power.  If this meant running candidates for office and
> winning elections, fine,

The problem with this strategy is that successfull electoral campaigns have
a tendancy to make the organisations running them go from revolutionary to
reformist, and instead of overthrowing the system they incorporate
themselves into it.  The transformation of the Social Democrats from
revolutionary marxists to revisionists is a classic case of this.