Hiya, John Young has the backing of the 'pope of Marxism'. In his critique of Lenin's dictatorship, Karl Kautsky says that one of the many reasons that socialists are advocates of electoral democracy is because - when they go canvassing for votes - they'd find out what people really think rather than what leftie intellectuals claimed that they were thinking...
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