Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Democratic Socialism Explained w/Christo Aivalis" video.

  1. A real Democratic Socialist polity would be based on grassroots participatory democracy, and decentralized political structures. Industries would be predominantly if not all workers cooperatives and worker’s associations would organize federations or confederations based on parallel structures. “Socialism is either classless or it is nothing at all” — George Orwell
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  2. Cimande people have no idea what Socialism is cause they’re fed so much propaganda. They all think it’s government control and Statist, but ignore Anarchism, and Democratic Socialism. Marxist-Leninism was only one strain, it should not be the single vision of Socialism. Not all Socialism is authoritarian or Leninist.
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  3. JesseFin88 Crossout Gamer Marxist-Leninists have State Capitalism and Democratic Centrism or straight up dictatorship. It’s top-bottom State bureaucracy. Democratic Socialism is more politically liberal, and then you have libertarian socialism which is Anarchism
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  4. peperlover99 exactly. Democratic Socialism is simply evolutionary Marxism, or sociopolitically liberal, and socioeconomically socialist. Like the short lived Paris Commune. A worker’s liberal democracy, or Republic.
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  5. Keith Warner exactly. Capitalism is just rule of capital. The property owning class only want to accumulate wealth and capital, at the expense of an underclass of exploited laborers. Worker’s cooperative and collectives, or syndicates would decentralize economic power and advance an industrial democracy.
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  6. michael nola yes people always conflate Socialism with government, welfare, authoritarianism etc... Marxist-Leninists do not dictate what all Socialism is. It has a broad history in liberalism and libertarianism aka anarchism. Like Rosa Luxembourg, George Orwell, and many others we need to advocate liberal and libertarian socialist ideals. Democratic Socialism predicated on an ideal of a worker’s liberal democracy, or worker’s Republic. This is where much of socialism originated. John Stuart Mill advocated worker’s cooperatives over capitalist boss industries. We need to ensure democratic and decentralized power in the hands of the people, the workers.
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  7. JesseFin88 Crossout Gamer they never claimed to be Democratic Socialist. They were Federal Soviets. Marxists Leninists aren’t Democratic Socialists, they’re Stats Socialists. What they achieve is called State Capitalism and State Socialism. Democratic Socialism is politically liberal or Republican, and socioeconomically Socialist. Several socialists agree to Market Socialism, but all are anti-capitalist. The market economy is not synonymous with the system of capitalism, private owners accumulating wealth and capital. Socialism is either Statist, Democratic, or libertarian. It can be authoritarian, liberal, or anarchist. Like capitalism, liberal democracies have liberal capitalism, Fascist States has Corporate Capitalism, and dictators like Pinochet in Chile protected private interests and capitalism
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  8. Green Square did you see the video?
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