"Politicians lie" does not imply "voting is meaningless." As you said, politicians are "allies of convenience," which are useful, and voting helps you get better ones.
No, what I meant by that statement is that candidates of the communist party who manage to enter bourgeois parliaments should only ever work with bourgeois politicians if they have power over those politicians, and can use them for communist purposes.
If you don't have power over them, they have power over you, and they're using you accordingly.
"Politicians lie" does not imply "voting is meaningless." As you said, politicians are "allies of convenience," which are useful, and voting helps you get better ones.
No, what I meant by that statement is that candidates of the communist party who manage to enter bourgeois parliaments should only ever work with bourgeois politicians if they have power over those politicians, and can use them for communist purposes.
If you don't have power over them, they have power over you, and they're using you accordingly.