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But most Western parties aren't ossified and failures
I don't get why you're being downvoted for this. To say they are failures is a relative view with a very specific definition of failure, as far as I can tell. The implication it's now getting simplified into in this thread seems to be that because they haven't tried or succeeded at a revolution, they are failures. If that's someone's standard, that's their standard, but there are other metrics to measure, like what kind of influence they've had on the political landscape of the given country as a whole; whether they have made a difference as opposition or not (or another way to look at it: would the given country be more reactionary/fascistic/etc. without them in the picture?). I don't think the Black Panther Party in the US ever got to the stage of attempting revolution, but they still made strides toward their goals and no doubt had an impact on things. Just comes across as reductionist to me.
Yeah, the BPP wasn't a failure.
In addition, most Western parties are still around despite fierce repression and propaganda. The org I was apart of lasted 105 years so far despite it all.