Reply #10: artistic license?

or wishful thinking?

Avakian apparently did leave the country due to charges from a demonstration against a visit by Deng Xiao Ping. He had something like 200+ years being thrown at him on trumped up charges. Anyway he recently gave a speech in the U.S. ( http://threeqvideo.com/ ), and the RCP is diverse and growing.

As to the last part of your statement, about people leaving, and "playing" revolutionaries, I wouldn't know much about it. How do you know anything about it? Internet rumors?

As to the question of voting and elections I would suggest listening to this recent speech by Avakian on the subject. It's illuminating to hear something other than, "if you don't vote you can't complain", or "you lost now shutup and get used to it". Here is the first part of the speech: http://bobavakian.net/sound/avakian_democracy_1.mp3

The rest of it can be found at: http://bobavakian.net/

It is the speech called "Elections, Democracy and Dictatorship, Resistance and Revolution"