Well, as far as that goes, Wilson goes so far as to claim that the identicality between socialism and democracy includes the nullification of individual rights. He harps on this, as you can see.
It also redounds to Marx and Engels, where they talk about “win(ning) the battle of democracy” in the Communist Manifesto and “establish(ing) a democratic constitution” in The Principles of Communism.
Not enough is discussed about the differences between democracy and republicanism, certainly almost never these days.
Well, with today’s “republic-ans” you don’t really notice that there IS a difference.