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How do you explain that socialism is more democratic? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by marl_karx@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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How do you argue with someone to explain why Marxism-Leninism is more democratic than western liberal democracy, when they are deeply propagandized to think that only the western democracy is democratic and just and say that rich people are needed to make the economy work etc (all the usual talking points). I am not very good at this, when I say our democracy is not democratic they said I sound insane

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago

Another way to look at it is look at the class background of communist leadership across the history socialist states. How often are they from privileged socio-economic backgrounds? Only about 9 presidents grew up in what would be concidered working class backgrounds.

23 American Presidents came from either high socio-economic status backgrounds, politically prominent families, or both. 26 of them were lawyers, and about 22 of them were career politicians.

What was Stalin? A peasant that got expelled from priest school. Mao? A librarian, I believe. Khrushchev? A metal worker. Up and down the the political chain, the working class compose the bulk of the political body that makes up the Soviet socialist system of governance