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Any of those is a dead end, if you don't couple it with separate leftist organising.
If you read my comments on the matter you will see that I agree. Voting isn't the only thing we should be doing. Tankies are doing a dis-service to our movements by ignoring elections and not wanting to make a broader left leaning coalition.
Fair enough then. Though I'm not sure most tankies generally disagree on that point as Lenin himself promotes the idea to some extent. Then again, tankies generally don't follow most of Lenin's logic.
Tankies should at least help us on primaries to push left. At least there we can say that we really say we are being ignored. I think harm minimization is important for a short term. Particularly on state and local matters as those policies affect us more directly (on that level we can push back on hostile architecture).
In other posts I have elaborated that voting is also about making our movements known and adding credibility. A movement that can organize to show up and fill out a ballot can also show up for a strike, sit in, or other form of civil disobedience.
More over, at least in the west, voting comes with little personal harm and relatively small time commitment (not everyone is going to canvas or run). So its not that big an ask and they are letting us down by being so hostile to voting.