Democracy does remove the ruling class. Its aim is fundamentally the same as socialism.
IMO the only difference between democracy and socialism advocates is the preferred method of achieving a classless society.
Your wording implies that you see democracy and socialism as mutually exclusive approaches to the same goal. However, they aren’t mutually exclusive. Previous and existing socialist societies are quite democratic. While I still need to look further into the ways specific socialist states are organized, I think a good recent case study for this is Cuba’s family code.
So that will become a legal document? It will be an enforceable code?
But it’s being drafted in a Libyan-style democratic process?
If so that’s a great experiment. You who understands it, what do you think the western pro-democracy movement (for example the quite powerful one in France) can learn from this?
So that will become a legal document? It will be an enforceable code?
From what I understand.
If so that’s a great experiment. You who understands it, what do you think the western pro-democracy movement (for example the quite powerful one in France) can learn from this?
I’m no expert on this, just aware of that recent development in Cuba, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
I guess if I were to tie the French and Cuban revolution and the meme together, organizing society in the interests of most people when society is currently in control of a ruling minority requires to some extent going outside of the law and governmentally approved political institutions, and may even necessitate organized violence.
This doesn’t mean people should be immediately pushing for armed revolution, and it especially doesn’t mean that people should do random acts of terror against the rich and powerful, however satisfying that might be. The left in the west is nowhere near strong and organized enough to pull off the former, and the latter accomplishes nothing and pushes people away from the movement. Still, organizing workplaces and communities to meet material needs that the bosses and state aren’t meeting and spreading class consciousness will go further than trying to vote a few progressive members into the existing bourgeoisie state’s institutions because for the latter the game is rigged against you so that the only victories you can get are temporary concessions that get clawed back from you.
Considering much of the imperial periphery is escaping U.S. dominance, it’s going to be increasingly harder for U.S. and friends to sustaining themselves on cheap labor and resources from the imperial periphery, more people are going to be driven into precarious positions and kept there by means of state violence, and eventually the guillotine approach is going to look less like the fantasies of violent madmen and more like the only viable option to getting out of an unbearable situation.
Yes “ostensibly”. They are “representative” democracies. The “representative” qualifier is because they are not true democracies.
Democracy does remove the ruling class. Its aim is fundamentally the same as socialism.
IMO the only difference between democracy and socialism advocates is the preferred method of achieving a classless society.
Your wording implies that you see democracy and socialism as mutually exclusive approaches to the same goal. However, they aren’t mutually exclusive. Previous and existing socialist societies are quite democratic. While I still need to look further into the ways specific socialist states are organized, I think a good recent case study for this is Cuba’s family code.
So that will become a legal document? It will be an enforceable code?
But it’s being drafted in a Libyan-style democratic process?
If so that’s a great experiment. You who understands it, what do you think the western pro-democracy movement (for example the quite powerful one in France) can learn from this?
From what I understand.
I’m no expert on this, just aware of that recent development in Cuba, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
I guess if I were to tie the French and Cuban revolution and the meme together, organizing society in the interests of most people when society is currently in control of a ruling minority requires to some extent going outside of the law and governmentally approved political institutions, and may even necessitate organized violence.
This doesn’t mean people should be immediately pushing for armed revolution, and it especially doesn’t mean that people should do random acts of terror against the rich and powerful, however satisfying that might be. The left in the west is nowhere near strong and organized enough to pull off the former, and the latter accomplishes nothing and pushes people away from the movement. Still, organizing workplaces and communities to meet material needs that the bosses and state aren’t meeting and spreading class consciousness will go further than trying to vote a few progressive members into the existing bourgeoisie state’s institutions because for the latter the game is rigged against you so that the only victories you can get are temporary concessions that get clawed back from you.
Considering much of the imperial periphery is escaping U.S. dominance, it’s going to be increasingly harder for U.S. and friends to sustaining themselves on cheap labor and resources from the imperial periphery, more people are going to be driven into precarious positions and kept there by means of state violence, and eventually the guillotine approach is going to look less like the fantasies of violent madmen and more like the only viable option to getting out of an unbearable situation.
Thanks that’s interesting.