Who the fuck cares about "democracy"? Bitch I need health care and public transportation I don't give a fuck about going out to vote and neither do most people
Why wasn't the USSR more democratic
Gabriel Gray
Isaiah Taylor
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All of this is hard to understand
Peoples tyranny is democracy; the party is composed of the soviets
Joseph Adams
(me)
*isn't
Austin James
What the fuck does "increase democracy" even mean? Socialism should increase autonomy/freedom.
Michael Gray
No liberal, it should abolish classes and replace the amarchy of the market with central planning.
Alexander Barnes
Huh? Socialism would do away with individual autonomy in favor of planned economy and assigned profession. You get to dig ditches, but you must always remember, you're doing your part. LOL you lefties don't even understand what you advocate
Alexander Hall
Yes, that's how it would do that. Workers control production instead of a parasite class.
Aiden Mitchell
no. Even moderate forms of division of labor are controversial for some Marxists because of the fear that they'd lead to class divisions.
This (similar to 'competition') is a false dichotomy, there are always aspects of an economy that are planned at various degrees of centralization and parts that are not in every modern economy (including soviet ones). Even individual autonomous actions are still 'planned', just not centralized.
Grayson Rivera
Here's a general question to anyone who adheres to "[insert adjective here-] democracy" (direct, proletarian, revolutionary, etc.)!
Name one (that is, 1) historical example of an actually existing democratic system that was not a class society.
Cockshott fags are welcome to answer.
I'm waiting.
tbh this is when I'm seriously tempted to post under a leftcom flag, famalams
Logan Reed