>>15206>I've seen a video of Castillo saying he's not Marxist, seemingly rolling back on his positions. Is this genuine or just an attempt to get increase his vote share?Could you perhaps try to track down the source of where you read/heard this?
>>15208>Anyone running for bourgeois elections in this day is not a Marxist.Bullshit appeal to blind adventurism.
>>15211>A better statement is: even if Castillo wins, nothing will fundamentally change, as he is a representative of the bureaucrat-capitalist class against the comprador class, and will simply be a social democrat in practice like Evo or Maduro. >Nothing would changeThis is just plainly false, in terms of material reality.
Also even for Maoists it's been made abundantly clear that it's better for them to rise with an ML/socdem leadership that then cucks out vs what happened with the PCP experience. Both Philippine and Nepalese Maoists are way ahead today as a result and you're coping badly with this fact.
>>15212>Socialism through bourgeois elections is impossible,Seems you need to re-read Lenin. The point of participating in elections for communists is to reach out to the wider populace in articulating your critique and program to raise class consciousness, not to expect to win by ballot-box (but recent decades have shown for this to be a possibility still in some cases, when paired with the threat of a more militant alternative, like the case in Nepal again).
>An active election boycott is the best way to court the massesUnder a military junta? Sure. Fascist govt? Yeah. Mainstreamed "liberal democratic government"? No.
You'd just be appealing to elements within the petit-bourgeois, like anarchists do, that find adventurism exciting. You're not after consciousness raising or to achieve
a successful revolution.
You're just advocating for dopamine rushes for small, bored, relatively well-off cliques. In reality you ignore Mao, Lenin, Marx.
Gonzaloists lead revolutionaries astray.