• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    US is a democracy for the ruling class which is the capital owning class, just as ROC is. As Lenin so eloquently put it, in capitalist society, providing it develops under the most favorable conditions, we have a more or less complete democracy in the democratic republic. But this democracy is always hemmed in by the narrow limits set by capitalist exploitation and consequently always remains, in effect, a democracy for the minority, only for the propertied classes, only for the rich. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave owners.

    Don’t take my word for it though, here’s what a study analyzing decades of US policy found:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

    Meanwhile, the whole concept of any sort of democracy is pretty recent in ROC given that it was a literal dictatorship for most of its existence. If the current fascist in charge actually goes to jail, which seems increasingly unlikely, then another representative of the capital owning minority will replace him.

    On the other hand, DPRK is a socialist state where workers are in charge. The industry and farms in DPRK are a mix of state and cooperative ownership, and work is done for the benefit of the workers themselves. A state where capital does not rule over the workers is fundamentally more democratic than any sort of bourgeoisie democracy could ever hope to be.

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      2 days ago

      You really had me until you claimed workers are in charge of the DPRK. it looks like a hereditary monarchy to me.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        It’s quite obvious that you don’t know the first thing about the subject you’re attempting to debate here. Why should anybody care about what it looks like to you?