As far as they are from breaking from reformism and the Democratic Party, Bernie’s success in the 2020 primaries proves Lenin right over the SEP. The SEP strategy of running ineligible candidates or running only in races for which the SEP lacks funds for victory does not work and contradicts the strategy of the Bolsheviks who led the 1917 socialist revolution. The SEP must remember that Cortez paved the way for Sanders by pushing the DSA agenda in the media. She had a voting record and a series of public disputes. The SEP must follow the same course, winning an election for a lower office in order to provide the public with a record of public disputes, legislative proposals and votes. This would pave the way for a national victory and thereby set the stage for the beginning of the world revolution.