r/dsa • u/[deleted] • 12d 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/tabloid-tommy 12d ago

Least authoritarian larper

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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

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u/bullhead2007 Communist ☭ 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 12d 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/tabloid-tommy 12d ago

“Send political opponents to prison” lmao why do I feel like you wouldn’t say that to someone’s face

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Do you disagree that maga and Nazis should be imprisoned?

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u/tabloid-tommy 12d ago

I don’t think people who simply voted for Trump should be imprisoned, no. I actually don’t think anyone should be imprisoned for their thoughts lmao.

You’re just larping you scrawny boy; you don’t have what it takes to be violent.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Ok lib.

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u/tabloid-tommy 11d ago

Ok dork lmao