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As someone who is neither, I think it's clear that plenty of democratic socialists are anti-nondemocratic socialism. Surely the biggest critics of a government
by xvedejas 4y ago
As someone who is neither, I think it's clear that plenty of democratic socialists are anti-nondemocratic socialism. Surely the biggest critics of a government falsely claiming to pursue an ideology, are those true believers of the ideology, seeing their ideas used as cover for something else?
- int_19h 4y agoIt goes beyond indignation; there's long-standing bad blood between two camps. Soviets specifically actively persecuted democratic socialists (Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries) during the 1917 revolution. In late USSR, some political dissidents also self-identified as some kind of demsoc or demcom, such as e.g. Aleksandr Skobov.