Leninists: Lenin wasn't an electoralist! Why don't anarkiddies read?

Lenin: "The elections to the Fourth Duma are due to be held next year. The Social-Democratic Party must launch its election campaign at once."
"It is obvious... that the bourgeois revolution in Russia has not been consummated... You cannot help making clear even to the most benighted muzhik that the state must be governed by a Duma which is more freely elected than the First Duma, by a Duma elected by the whole people."
From 'The Election Campaign and the Election Platform', 1911
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1911/oct/18c.htm
'Oh but this was part of his genius strategy to prove that bourgeois elections were futile' and from there over a century of Leninists doing backflips to justify participating in bourgeois elections.
"I want to support Henderson in the same way as the rope supports a hanged man". When I want to hasten someone's demise I always engage in a multi-year campaign to make them Prime Minister of the United Kingdom first.
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