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Allende but with real shooters is basically the only feasible option in the imperial core. All the more orthodox strategies have failed miserably because they were developed in wildly different conditions.

It's what Venezuela and Bolivia did. While their situations right now are less than ideal, it's inarguable that they made major stride in advancing socialism, Venezuela especially so. Elect a president and legislature, hold a constituent assembly, empower militant mass organizations to defend it, and do whatever you can to purge the cops and military. Revolution is not some opposite side to elections - they are dialectically connected, with elections able to act as an important, pivotal tool within a revolutionary process. The power still has to stem from mass organization, militancy, and the capacity to fight the ruling class. But elections do bestow power, and that power can be used to consolidate more. You should drop all pretense of fair elections with the bourgeois parties and use your electoral victory to cement working class power on every imaginable front. Eventually, a more violent revolutionary process is inevitable, but you can approach it from a position of strength with a state that is on your side or at least divided.