Democratic
Socialism, a term made popular today by presidential candidate Bernie
Sanders, is a subject that needs to be commented on from a real
Marxist perspective.
Democratic
Socialism is nothing more than an illogical reference to social
democracy. The Democratic Socialism that Bernie talks about, is
nothing more than a well-regulated capitalist economy, more liberal
than non-regulated conservative style capitalism; Or in other words,
social democracy. Social democracy is juxtaposed to fascism. With its
shared corporatist model and capitalist mode of production, social
democracy is of liberal influence; its liberal pacifism weakens the
worker revolution, making the fight against capitalism ever more
difficult as the working class stays sedated by its liberalism. Prior
to WW II, the Social-Democrats were referred to as “social
fascists” by the communists for their eagerness to pacify the
emerging fascist movement in Europe. Rather than build a united front
against fascism as called for by the communists, the Social-Democrats
cooperated with the fascists and weakened the left resistance in
Europe.
“Sometimes, the worst enemy isn't the opposition in the battlefield, it's the reactionary in the party”
Social
democracy, the variant of fascism, must survive with the existence of
fascism; The reason for this is that Social-Democrats sedate the
working class through reactionary liberalism, selling them the lies
of compassionate capitalism, ignoring the privatization, exploitation
and wage slavery that capitalism uses to thrive. Fascism is a
right-wing system birthed out of the decaying capitalist right-wing
populism, misleading angry, divided working people and forcing them
against themselves and against others abroad. Classic example of this
is the campaign of Donald Trump.
On
the other hand, Social-Democrats like Bernie Sanders, speak of
“Democratic socialism” using Scandinavia as their model, while
slandering the Soviet Union and twentieth century socialism;
Social-Democrats see socialist planned economies, that overthrew the
capitalist class, and suppress it, as “undemocratic” and
“totalitarian.” What must be clearly understood is that democracy
can never be true with the allowance of capitalist influence to
pervert it and twist it against the workers. Allow capitalist
parasites power and they will use it to politically destroy the
workers state, and use it to exploit the working class once more.
Proletarian democracy is the genuine example of a free, democratic
society, and in any real democracy, suppression of parasites, like
the capitalist class, is important to preserve the democracy for the
proletariat.
As
Marxists, the fight against fascism, is as important as the fight
against liberalism; And part of the fight against liberalism, is the
fight against social democracy, which automatically ties in to the
fight against fascism. Overall, it is still part of our main fight,
which is the fight against capitalism.
