Lenin on the Need to Fight for Democracy Under Capitalism

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3. No, I don't think so.

Especially not at this point in history. Around the time of the Civil War, there was probably that combination since the bourgeois-democratic struggle had been incomplete when the Am. Revolution occurred. It was a capitalist/worker combination struggle.

I take it to mean that the proletarian struggles should not cease even under capitalism. The bourgeois are also struggling to maintain their power--there might be some things that are in tandem, with divisions in different capitalist camps that can be exploited.

There is a tendency that says that struggle isn't useful unless there is a revolution at hand. But Lenin said that people should achieve all things that they can even if it isn't a total change of society, since those things (universal suffrage, etc.) will be things that will need to be put into place even when socialism arises. If you can achieve them under capitalism, why wait?