How do you argue with someone to explain why Marxism-Leninism is more democratic than western liberal democracy, when they are deeply propagandized to think that only the western democracy is democratic and just and say that rich people are needed to make the economy work etc (all the usual talking points). I am not very good at this, when I say our democracy is not democratic they said I sound insane
If democracy is social but not economic, it isn’t democratic. I can vote for the guy who will tax my boss less, but I can’t vote to elect a new boss or increase my pay or decrease my rent. My boss, landlord, and the political class all enshrine their own power over me the more they amass wealth. When their vote has more weight than my vote, it’s the same dynamic as pretending to let your pet choose something. The illusion of control obscures a fundamentally uneven relationship.
Under socialism, my vote improves my life. It isn’t a pressure valve to prevent revolution, but a means of achieving it across all the spheres of my life.