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Thoughts on Nicaragua's "no more elections"? (hexbear.net)
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On one hand, the optimist inside me thinks this might be a bulwark against imperialism, colour revolutions, and possibly an attempt at creating a dictatorship of the proletariat.

On the other, the pessimist in me thinks this is a very old man and his wife who should have chosen (or held elections for) a successor many years ago and are clinging to power all the while making a mockery of a socialist movement.

Maybe it's a bit of column A, bit of column B. I don't know enough about Nicaragua to pass judgment.

Thoughts?

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[–] Red_Shift@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

I'm for getting rid of bourgeois "democracy" at any point, multi party elections would just benefit imperialism, the question is, is it being replaced by any form of proletarian democracy? Are there any elections within the party? Are unions and workers organizations given power within the party to vote? If they continue with a one-party socialist democracy, then I think that's exactly what they should be doing. But having no or a low amount of socialist democracy within that structure would be concerning. Right now I'm not certain that we have enough info to make that judgement call yet.