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That's quite rich considering both lemmygrad and hexbear ban you for asking how a vanguard party is not just another form of bourgeoisie rule.
Yeah pretty much. I've had issues with them too. Isn't the whole point of marxism that you're supposed to point out contradictions?
Like you can give them the benefit of the doubt because nobody wants to deal with shitheads coming in and posting the same reactionary shit over and over again but it just feels a little too tempting to turn that onto people who bring up something you don't have an answer for.
You're not bourgeois if you oppress the working people by turning labor unions into agents of the party and ending their ability to meaningfully participate in government decisions or dissent from those decisions, or eliminate their ability to negotiate their own compensation for their labor, or their ability to start their own businesses. It's only oppression if capitalism because capitalism bad