• bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Democratic centralism is only a good thing when your party can reliably make the correct decisions.

    • Barx [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      And is actually democratic.

      Most times I’ve seen Western leftists try out demcent it immediately collapses into an insular central committee (sometimes with another name) that decides it now has virtually dictatorial power because they were elected by membership and it turns out there are no real rules and nobody is organized enough to fight them.

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        4 months ago

        This is probably because western leftists lack organizational experience (given how much previous successful western left-wing orgs were destroyed or coopted)