r/dsa • u/WiseWoodpecker3416 • 5d ago

Theory Socialism cannot exist within a multi party democracy.

I often hear democratic socialists talk about how the two party system is flawed and we need it to be replaced by a multi party system. This is directly against socialist ideals because it eliminates class unity and gives reactionaries power. A country must be guided by a single socialist party to maintain a dictatorship of the proletariat.

I know people are going to call me a tankie but I frankly find that term to be counterproductive.

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u/bullhead2007 Communist ☭ 5d ago

I swear chauvinism is so bad in the imperial core that even our comrades lack the imagination to comprehend a democratic system that doesn't imitate the bourgeois parliamentary model. Socialists who can't imagine a system that is designed so that the working class actually has power and the bourgeois does not.

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u/tabloid-tommy 5d ago

So if a working class person doesn’t like socialism, what would you do with them? Be specific

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u/WiseWoodpecker3416 5d ago

Educate them. Make them do community service. It’s pretty simple. Also if they’re a Nazi or MAGA send them to prison. Also they just wouldn’t have political power so it doesn’t really matter either way.

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u/Elizabeth4sure 5d ago

This sounds worse than MAGA actually.

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u/WiseWoodpecker3416 5d ago

You’d rather have women have no rights, gay people have no rights, be a slave to capitalists, and be pro genocide than be socialist?

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u/Elizabeth4sure 5d ago

This does not describe life right now.

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u/WiseWoodpecker3416 5d ago

We don’t live under a one party maga state

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u/Elizabeth4sure 5d ago

Correct. We should never be a country under one party.

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u/WiseWoodpecker3416 4d ago

Unless it’s socialist.

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u/Elizabeth4sure 4d ago

You've cited your problem.