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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Marxism is anti-utopian, it's based on analyzing how societies evolve over time. What is deemed "authoritarianism" is the need for the proletariat to exert its control over the bourgeoisie, rather than the reverse, yet bourgeois rule is more authoritarian.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's fine in theory, until the party starts calling everything it sees as a potential opposition or threat to itself and any attempts to adapt to the times "burgeois".

Until you guys create a clear set of rules to permit gradual evolution, dissenting voices, protecting the rights of the individual and political opposition, while preventing things like cult of personality, nobody is getting on that ride again.

(oh wait, there is another ride like that but for the nation instead of the proletariat, it's called fascism...and everybody is getting on it...again)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, because rule by the bourgeois will always tend towards a more authoritarian level than Socialism.