Use all weapons. Understand their limits. "It is known that in capitalist society a privileged minority of exploiters and bureaucrats exercises its class rule over the vast majority of people. It is known that the government alternates between certain politicians and certain military figures, tied all in one way or another to the big companies, to the landowning oligarchy and to imperialism; who are themselves actually big businessmen and pro-imperialist oligarchs....
"How do the bourgeoisie maintain political control, that is, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie? How do they manage to keep the working classes, who are the majority, looking to the government? ... They use two main systems, the parliamentary system and military Bonapartism. Both systems use a combination of deception and force to maintain the hegemony of the bourgeoisie....
"Parliamentarianism is a disguised form of bourgeois dictatorship. It is based on the organization of political parties and universal suffrage. Apparently all the people elect their rulers. But actually not, because as we all know the nominations are determined by the power of money....
"A revolutionary politics must know how to use all kinds of weapons — including those like parliamentarianism that have been created and used to advantage by the bourgeoisie — to advance mass mobilization, or to induce crisis, division and confusion in the enemy ranks. "But it would be a serious mistake to believe that through elections it's possible to find some solutions to the fundamental problems of the working class, the people and our homeland."
—Mario Roberto Santucho, 1974, Argentine "urban guerrilla" leader of the ERP/PST, assassinated by the military in 1976 Via Anti-Imperialist League








