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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Marx's "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" was envisaged as democracy though.

Bourgeois democracy (ie what we largely live in today) is "Dictatorship of the bourgeoisie".

It's in reference to what class holds power, not an actual autocratic or oligarchic power structure.