Democracy is a social disease and socialism is a symptom of it.. As Marx and Lenin said, democracy is pre-requisite to socialism.. They were correct.. No democracy ever exsisted that was not a socialist system.. ever..
Iraq is becoming a democracy.. Better they would form states and become a republic.. Even though a Banana republic (which is really a democracy) is not an advance. A real republic would be a better gov't for Iraq.. also for Britain, Germany and France too..
Socialism does not allow competeing parties well.. for good reason.. Socialism sucks..
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. – John Adams (1814)
The UK is not strictly a democracy. Our political system is a constitutional monarchy.
France is a republic, as is Germany. It's a very broad term.
>>a Banana republic (which is really a democracy)
banana republics are usually dictatorships, not democracies.
The CIA World Factbook lists the USA as 'Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition '