It’s been a long while since I followed news from the NPA in the Philippines but iirc that’s what they do, there is the electoral wing of the communist party in government and the NPA in the jungle
That’s over structuring it. If you’re doing Democratic Socialism its because you don’t have a place to hide any sort of revolutionary army. Instead you have a large coalition of proletarian organizations and they all need to have a militant consensus and hopefully be armed.
you need the socdem org to be a front for the militant org i guess
It’s been a long while since I followed news from the NPA in the Philippines but iirc that’s what they do, there is the electoral wing of the communist party in government and the NPA in the jungle
The Communist Party of the Philippines is illegal, you’re thinking of the “national democratic mass organisations”
Ah that’s right, appreciate the correction
That’s over structuring it. If you’re doing Democratic Socialism its because you don’t have a place to hide any sort of revolutionary army. Instead you have a large coalition of proletarian organizations and they all need to have a militant consensus and hopefully be armed.
i figure you might as well control the socdems rather than have them operating on their own devices or as sheepdogs for liberals.
You do that through the militancy of the coalition behind them. If you try to play puppet master you split the coalition.