If you want a mass movement that has revolutionary potential, you stick the flag in the ground and call people to you.
I see the theoretical appeal of this, but it's been tried for a long time in the U.S., and it hasn't worked. I'll support groups that keep trying it, but it doesn't make sense to put all of our eggs in that particular basket. We know we can build a mass movement in the electoral arena around baby leftist stuff like Medicare for All, and we know there's a pipeline from that to "The USSR Was Cool And Good, Actually." That's far too promising to abandon.
As for the feasibility of taking over the system from the inside, we really don't know what is or isn't possible, because to date no one has built a socialist government in the imperial core (or at best you have a sample size of one, depending on what you think of Imperial Russia). But we've seen leftists come to power through elections in the imperial periphery (look at South America), and we've seen leftists (or at least baby leftists) win elections in the U.S. (including higher and higher offices at more local levels). Again, that strikes me as far too promising to abandon.
I see the theoretical appeal of this, but it's been tried for a long time in the U.S., and it hasn't worked. I'll support groups that keep trying it, but it doesn't make sense to put all of our eggs in that particular basket. We know we can build a mass movement in the electoral arena around baby leftist stuff like Medicare for All, and we know there's a pipeline from that to "The USSR Was Cool And Good, Actually." That's far too promising to abandon.
As for the feasibility of taking over the system from the inside, we really don't know what is or isn't possible, because to date no one has built a socialist government in the imperial core (or at best you have a sample size of one, depending on what you think of Imperial Russia). But we've seen leftists come to power through elections in the imperial periphery (look at South America), and we've seen leftists (or at least baby leftists) win elections in the U.S. (including higher and higher offices at more local levels). Again, that strikes me as far too promising to abandon.