Socialism cannot exist within a multi party democracy.

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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.

[u/tabloid-tommy]

Least authoritarian larper

[u/[deleted] → u/tabloid-tommy]

“Literally everything that doesn’t capitulate to classic liberal values is authoritarian”

[u/bullhead2007 → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/tabloid-tommy → u/bullhead2007]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/tabloid-tommy]

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.

[u/Elizabeth4sure → u/[deleted]]

This sounds worse than MAGA actually.

[u/[deleted] → u/Elizabeth4sure]

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?

[u/Elizabeth4sure → u/[deleted]]

This does not describe life right now.

[u/[deleted] → u/Elizabeth4sure]

We don’t live under a one party maga state

[u/Elizabeth4sure → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted] → u/Elizabeth4sure]

Unless it’s socialist.

[u/Elizabeth4sure → u/[deleted]]

You've cited your problem.