Authoritarian is just a buzzword armchair generals throw around. All states rely on authority, including anarchist attempts like in Catalonia and Ukraine.
The CPC has like a 95 percent approval rating according to Harvard polling, what are you talking about?
Okay but the USSR didn't suck, it was a good attempt at workers democracy with massive problems, but smaller problems than bourgeois democracy
Shifted power in the sense of the local branches were federated within the same structure now, but honestly that seems more accountable and democratic?
Nah, the issue is capitalist control of it.
In Russia, Stalin abolished the soviets (A.K.A worker’s councils, kinda like mega unions) in the Soviet union.
Are you referring to the constitution of 1936, which established 4 layers of representative councils (local, regional, national, union) as Stalin dissolving the Soviets?
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why do you think that is worse
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why do you blame it on Stalin? Seems like a thing that was written and implemented pretty democratically.
Literally everyone uses the media that way, media always has bias and if you're ignorant to it you should be more wary.
Basically when you do a socialist revolution your national bourgeoisie and international bourgeoisie are willing to crush it through any means necessary. You unfortunately have to use the machinery of the state to protect from bourgeois subversion, or you get shit like Indonesia, Chile, overthrow of the USSR through executive coup, etc.
Lenin straight up says that in the "freedom of criticism" section of "what is to be done"
I can feel the harm reduction
Yeah, that and the degradation and praise elements
Mfw the anarcho-syndicalists throw me in a labor camp