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Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be an unrealistic utopia, better labeled as [Bourgeois Democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism), or democracy for the rich, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastructure, and the media **are controlled by capitalists**, who place restrictions and limitations on the ability and choices of the working class. [Bourgeois democracies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy#Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisie) tend to be highly plutocratic, resulting in legislation [favorable to the wealthy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig), regardless of the population's actual preferences. Examples of restrictions include stacking the candidates before an election, the [First Past the Post](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo) voting system (which enforces capitalist two party domination), [gerrymandering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering), long term limits with no way to recall unpopular representatives, restrictions crafted to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, bills directly crafted by lobbyists and bourgeois lawmakers, voter suppression, electoral fraud, unverifiable closed source electronic voting systems, capitalist campaign financing, low voter to representative ratios, inconvienient voting locations and times, and most pervasive, candidate stacking. **Most elections are performed before we ever get to the polling booth**. In short, political democracy can't exist without economic democracy.
Communists propose to replace bourgeois democracy with **proletarian democracy**, with such measures as:
- Replacement of bourgeois parliamentary bodies with broadly inclusive workers organizations.
- Represenatives elected by the working class through universal suffrage.
- All representatives and officials (including police) are revocable at any time.
- Public officials are paid workmen’s wages.
- Elimination of the standing army, and the substitution for it of armed workers.
- An emphasis on health-care, child-care, care for the elderly, and human welfare.
- Low levels of wealth and income inequality, often driven by a system of labor vouchers for compensation.
## Unsustainable Growth
During Capitalisms' growth period, when there are new markets and labor forces to expand to, capitalism can appear stable for the richer consumers whose products are actually being produced by exploited, poorer workforces. Likewise, in a labor shortage, as existed in the newly industrializing US, capitalists have no choice but to keep wages high (and the rate of exploitation low) in order to bring in workers from other countries, and keep them from running off into the interior. In the southern US, African slavery was used to solve the labor shortage, and keep exploitation high (since no wages were paid), and consumer products such as tobacco and cotton cheap. In order to take advantage of cheap labor, capitalists usually build production far away from where those products are actually bought and consumed, meaning that most consumer goods are shipped by ocean-freight, wasting energy and **polluting the environment**.

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* [Is the revolutionary DotP a separate material stage apart from lower phased communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2mrkkj/is_the_revolutionary_dotp_a_separate_material/)
* [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_stage_of_communism_or_is/)
* [Is socialism the lowest stage of communism or is it the transition to communism, in between capitalism and communism?](http://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/2rijno/is_socialism_the_lowest_staypal , but its lockedage_of_communism_or_is/)
## Why do you defend [x] country? Don't you know [y] leader killed [z] people?

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# Socialism Terminology Chart
# Leftist Terminology Chart
These are terms for agitating and radicalizing urban and rural wage-workers. Feel free to submit a pull-request to this file.
*For propaganda purposes only*
These are terms for agitating and radicalizing urban and rural wage-workers. Feel free to submit a pull-request to this file.
|Socialist|Urban Workers|Rural Workers|
|---|---|---|
|Socialism|Democracy in the workplace|Community self-ownership|
|Proletariat|Working Class|Wage earning class|
|Ruling Class / Bourgeoisie|Top 1%|Rich overlords|
|Class struggle|Landlords vs Tenants|Rich vs Poor|
|Revolution|Armed overthrow|Community emancipation|
|Proletariat|Working Class|Working farmers|
|Ruling Class / Bourgeoisie|Top 1%|Rich / Lords / Bosses / Banks|
|Class struggle|Landlords vs Tenants|Feudal lords vs peasants / Rich vs Poor / Corporatization|
|Revolution|Armed overthrow|Community empowerment|
|Capital|Absentee Property||
|Surplus value|Profit , IE `value added - wage paid`|Company's take / Exploitation|
|Surplus value|Profit , IE `value added - wage paid`|Company take / Exploitation|
|Dialectical Materialism|Historical Evolution of Production|Changes in production|
|Bourgeois democracy|Democracy for the Rich||
|Bourgeois democracy|Democracy for the rich||
|Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie|Police state||
|Dictatorship of the Proletariat|Worker-controlled state|Control over your community|
|Vanguard|Revolutionaries|Community organizers|
|Liberal|Individualist|Selfish smuggy aristocrats|
|Dictatorship of the Proletariat|Worker control of society|Control over your community|
|Revolutionaries|Community Organizers||
|Liberal|Individualist|Selfish smug aristocrats|
|Imperialism|Colonial exploitation|Bombing other workers|

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## White supremacy
- According to hate crimes researcher Brian Levin, hate crimes in nine US metropolitan areas [have risen by 20%](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306) in the year following Trump's election. <sup>[1](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-hate-crimes-20-percent-2016-fueled-election-campaign-n733306)</sup>
- On February 14th, 2018, white supremacist Nikolas Cruz [shot up his highschool](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Suspect) in Parkland Florida, killing 17 and wounding 15 more. Cruz [repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views on social media](https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/nicolas-nikolas-nick-cruz-florida-school-shooter-gunman-instagram/), and displayed an obsession with violence and guns. He was openly hostile to the antifa movement, and muslims. According to *Republic of Florida* (a white nationalist militia) leader Jordan Jereb, Cruz trained with and receieved a rifle from another member in the group, and was caught on video training wearing his Trump MAGA hat. <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Suspect)</sup>
- On October 20th, 2017, after a Richard Spencer rally in Gainesville FL, 3 white supremacists from Texas drove around in a pickup truck, shouting pro-hitler slogans, and then [opened fire on a crowd of protesters](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff). They drove off, and were arrested. One of them, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town. "Basically, I’m just fed up with the fact that I’m cis-gendered, I’m a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don’t accept certain things."<sup>[1](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/attempted-homicide-richard-spencer-speech-gainesville-florida_us_59ea766ae4b0958c468228ff)</sup>
- On July 14th, 2017, alt-right activist, anti-feminist, and former intern of Milo Yiannapoulous, Lane Davis, [murdered his father for calling him a nazi](https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-trumpkin-and-former-milo-intern-kills-his-own-dad-for-calling-him-a-nazi).
- On August 14th, 2017, at the [Unite the Right rally](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally) in Charlottesville VA, 20-year old Neo-nazi James Alex Fields Jr., [drove his car toward a crowd of antifascist counterprotestors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide), wounding 19, and killing Heather Heyer, a paralegal from Charlottesville. Heyer's mother said she wanted Heather's name to become "a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion." <sup>[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally#Vehicular_attack_and_homicide)</sup>