The recent successes for democratic socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani in New York and Omar Fateh in Minneapolis have reinvigorated discussions on what revolutionary potential might be found in bourgeois elections. However, communists, organizers, activists, revolutionaries, and workers must be clear-sighted when it comes to engaging in bourgeois electoralism. 

Socialists and democratic socialists running in bourgeois elections are misleading the working class. They’re draining it of the revolutionary potential required to construct the dictatorship of the proletariat — the true resolution to the contradictions facing society.

Without the dictatorship of the proletariat, we can’t resolve the current contradiction between capital and labor. Without resolving this contradiction, we can’t liberate ourselves, our communities, or our futures.