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[–] [email protected] 158 points 1 week ago (15 children)

"the greatest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm

[–] Tja 2 points 1 week ago

That's already more than any communist regime allowed, so lesser of two evils and all of that...

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