DentArthurDent wrote:
To answer the title of this thread, no it's not as long as a majority are fighting for change. As a socialist I see nothing undemocratic if the masses unite in either peaceful or violent revolution to overthrow an economic system which they do not want. However if a small group of revolutionary socialists took up arms and forced a majority of people to accept their ideology then that is the antithesis of democracy and by my definition it would also be the antithesis of socialism.
Indeed there has been rightful revolutions, peaceful and violent ones, and some of them had a good outcome, i.e. people really did get what they were fighting for, at least to a point (we know how it goes, nothing is perfect). One of the problems that happens sometimes tho, is that some narcissistic psychopath sometimes takes over a revolution, and they end up with a dictator worse than the previous one. For example, this is exactly what happened in Iran in 1979, when Khomeini hijacked the revolution, many Iranians would tell you that Khomeini was much worse than the Shah of Iran. That's why eventho Mir Hossein Mousavi was one of the leaders of the revolution in 1979, he was also leading the Green movement for freedom in 2009.
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15 Jun 2014, 12:36 pm
