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Socialists (including myself) DO NOT strongly oppose democracy and we are not dead set against Democracy It is true to state that all socialists (like me) without exception oppose a phenomenon ( https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/uTj40lLYk1p36h65NtA879gUYroqgwJPUBSJZOnIEWg.png ) that we variably call ‘bourgeois democracy ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/nov/06.htm )’, ‘capitalist democracy’, or ‘(neo)liberal democracy’: where the handful of parties with any chance of winning elections are both almost identical functionally and are invariably dominated by the upper classes. However, with the exceptions of Amadeo Bordiga ( https://libcom.org/files/Amadeo%20Bordiga-%20The%20Democratic%20Principle.pdf ) and similar left communists, most socialists never say that they are opposed to democracy as such. For example, many socialists argue that the state democratically reflecting the people’s will is in fact intrinsic to the proletarian state as proposed by Engel...
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