User:Inbloom2/Democratic communism

Democratic communism is a socio-economic system with communism as the economic basis and democracy as the governing principle. This entails that the means of production would be controlled and owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the people, through direct democracy.

Some argue that communism implies democracy, and that democratic communism is a redundant term. However, the term is often used to contrast genuinely democratic communism from the self-described "communist" ideologies that democratic communists consider totalitarian, such as Stalinism.

Democratic communists reject social democracy as forms of capitalism.

Concept

Communism is the communization of the economy and means of production own the whole population. In democratic communism, the entire population controls the economy through democracy. Directly contrasting this is state capitalism where a small group of ex-workers control the economy.

See also

• Democratic socialism

• Autonomism
• Council communism
• Democracy in Marxism
• Libertarian socialism
• Libertarian Marxism
• Luxemburgism
• Revolutionary socialism
• Workers' council

External link

• For Democratic Communism