What about democracy? Can’t voting fix our problems?
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Thank you, as a democratic socialist this is what I was looking for.
This is simplistic. If reform works, do it. If it cannot, use force. Even Marx, if I remember correctly, supported the reformist Chartists in relatively democratic countries like England (while supporting revolutionary methods in feudal Germany).
Marxist: Let me mock one of my closest ideological allies. That will help bring about revolution.
Democratic Socialist: The fuck did I do to you, bro?
Democratic socialists are not our ally
And that’s why you’ve got no chance as a movement. And you couldn’t create anything sustainable even if you did. Congrats.
A succesful united front is only achievable by picking your fights. Focus on the capitalists, not on who may eventually turn sympathetic to our worker’s cause. When the capitalists divide us, it won’t work.
(Speaking as an ancom).
Democratic socialism just means you believe in democratically governed socialism, not that you think you can just vote capitalism into socialism. There’s both reformist and revolutionary democratic socialists. I both believe in democracy and also see that the only way to overturn capitalism (at least in the US) would be through revolution. All the democratic part means is that they’re opposed to monarchies or dictatorships.
Are you saying that you can have undemocratic socialism?
Isn’t that what USSR was, dictatorship?
Dictatorship of the proletariat is democracy for the people
How? You still have 1 person having full power instead of being first among equals?
You don’t, though, this is ahistorical. Not only was the politburo a team, but the politburo wasn’t all-powerful, merely the central organ. There was a huge deal of local autonomy.
The DSA has everyone from reformist soc dems, to anarchists, to MLs, to Maoist Third Worldists
and that’s precisely the reason it’s been so effective
