OK, but when liberals screech about personality cults under Socialism, I always like to bring up President For Life, FDR.
Obviously that shit can be bad, and we should avoid that kind of dogmatism, as it can lead to a litany of errors. But also, these kinds of things Happen organically all the time, Because people like it when you make their lives better.
Having a single leader or party for a long time is actually an expected symptom of an actually democratic system. The people who protect the interests of the majority, the workers, stay in power indefinitely, why would they not? This is why we see Cuba keeping Fidel around until he died. Not because of cult of personality, but due to stable leadership and going in the correct direction. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
The unstable multiparty system and flip-flopping and rotating door of politicians you see in western bourgeois dictatorships is due to competing elite interests. There’s two or more factions of bourgeois interests battling it out behind the veneer of ideology and legalism. Various ones fall in and out of favor, and chaotic markets shift, and crisis due to contradiction and instability occurs.
I don’t disagree. There’s something to be said for regime stability, institutional memory, etc. That’s all fine.
But that’s not the same thing as a personality cult. A personality cult is what allowed Ceausescu to get a goofy-ass scepter, as a silly example, and they can undermine the process of Democratic Centralism.
OK, but when liberals screech about personality cults under Socialism, I always like to bring up President For Life, FDR.
Obviously that shit can be bad, and we should avoid that kind of dogmatism, as it can lead to a litany of errors. But also, these kinds of things Happen organically all the time, Because people like it when you make their lives better.
Having a single leader or party for a long time is actually an expected symptom of an actually democratic system. The people who protect the interests of the majority, the workers, stay in power indefinitely, why would they not? This is why we see Cuba keeping Fidel around until he died. Not because of cult of personality, but due to stable leadership and going in the correct direction. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
The unstable multiparty system and flip-flopping and rotating door of politicians you see in western bourgeois dictatorships is due to competing elite interests. There’s two or more factions of bourgeois interests battling it out behind the veneer of ideology and legalism. Various ones fall in and out of favor, and chaotic markets shift, and crisis due to contradiction and instability occurs.
I don’t disagree. There’s something to be said for regime stability, institutional memory, etc. That’s all fine.
But that’s not the same thing as a personality cult. A personality cult is what allowed Ceausescu to get a goofy-ass scepter, as a silly example, and they can undermine the process of Democratic Centralism.
And IMF induced orphan baby AIDS