• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    21 hours ago

    So when we look at USSR, it was authoritarian since Stalin.

    That’s a popular view, promoted most by Troskyists and Orwell.

    That said, the original bullshit of dissolving the Soviets by the claim the Party was the voice of the people was actually done by . . . Trotsky.

    • Makes sense actually.

      Similarly, the seeds of the dissolution of democracy are built into the Constitution of the United States, in the preservation of institutionalized slavery and safeguards against mob rule is est, the loss of white male landowner power to poors, blacks and women as they respectively gain suffrage. It was meant all along to be democracy but not really.

      Isildur should have thrown the damn ring into Mount Doom when he had the chance.

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        30 minutes ago

        Totally. There’s a great book called The Founder’s Coup, which goes into exhaustive detail about how the Constitution was absolutely designed to stop democracy - most specifically, that which could threaten debt collection. See Shay’s Rebellion, a very ignored topic on much US casual history.