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Sri Lanka elects Marxist president (www.npr.org)
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This was a huge upset to the corrupt Sri Lankan old-guard who never saw it coming. Hopefully he has a plan of action to rid the corrupt bloodsuckers from parliament and begin the hard work of restoring prosperity to the people of Sri Lanka. Power to the people!

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[–] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

With this election and with Allende, there are two separate-but-related questions:

  1. Can a leftist party gain state power through elections?
  2. Can a leftist party that gained power through elections hold that power against reactionary attacks?

Allende succeeding at #1 but failing at #2 does not mean every party that succeeds at #1 must fail at #2. It's a question worth asking, but we have basically one data point.