Lenin and elections (1988)

From the June 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard

We did not mean to suggest in our reply to a letter in the April Socialist Standard that Lenin took up an anti-parliamentarist position and was opposed to participation in elections. On the contrary, he was in favour of this as a way of trying to obtain reforms and urged workers in Britain to vote Labour, though he also argued that the minority vanguard party he advocated could never get to power by electoral means but only through violence.

The Editors