You do not acquire power by handing it over to liberals. That quite in the contrary depowers us more.

As I said we need our own mass parties that are lead by us, not liberal parties or movements.

Take a look at other countries. In the UK Corbyn is currently forming his own party and drawing in great numbers after he was slandered out of Labour leadership.

In Germany Sarah Wagenknecht, long term former leader of the communist platform within the left party, is forming her own populist mass party.

In France the new popular front has been formed under left and not liberal leadership and won the elections.

Joining fold with the democrats is not building your own mass line. It makes you a collaborator in building a mass line for liberals.

Also dealing with class enemies is only something that can be truly done once you’ve consolidated power. Then it doesn’t matter how many of them there are as long as you have the means to hold onto power and decimate them. Every revolution needs its revolutionary terror to take care of counter-revolutionaries.

The goal is not to take part and win in bourgeois elections. That is systematically impossible actually. Taking part in those elections only servers as a platform to reach more people. You don’t need an actual majority for a successful revolution or coup. The Bolsheviks did not have the majority if you look at the first Russian elections after the overthrow of the Tsar, yet they still won the civil war.