The vanguard is just the formalized and democratized segment of the most trained professional revolutionaries in the working classes. It isn’t distinct from the working class, that’s like saying electricians are different from the working class. The vanguard is formalized and democratized so as to be accountable and transparent, and doesn’t “rule over” the working classes but is the representative body chosen by the working classes. The vanguard doesn’t sieze the means of production, the working class does, led by the vanguard they have chosen.
The working class is a spear. The vanguard is the spearhead, and the rest of the working class forms the actual mass that drives the spearhead through the capitalist machine. A spear with no spearhead isn’t very effective, a spearhead without a base even less so. Together, though, they form an effective revolutionary force that can kill the most violent fascist machines.
The vanguard is just the formalized and democratized segment of the most trained professional revolutionaries in the working classes. It isn’t distinct from the working class, that’s like saying electricians are different from the working class. The vanguard is formalized and democratized so as to be accountable and transparent, and doesn’t “rule over” the working classes but is the representative body chosen by the working classes. The vanguard doesn’t sieze the means of production, the working class does, led by the vanguard they have chosen.
The working class is a spear. The vanguard is the spearhead, and the rest of the working class forms the actual mass that drives the spearhead through the capitalist machine. A spear with no spearhead isn’t very effective, a spearhead without a base even less so. Together, though, they form an effective revolutionary force that can kill the most violent fascist machines.
Like white male landowners? They represent our interests!
Not sure what you’re getting at.