The Disagreements of a System of Direct Democracy

The socialist movement has struggled to define democracy as anything other than bourgeois and inferior to socialism. I suspect that the comrades in Sibcom Collective think communism will be realizable immediately after the working class takes state power. That a post-capitalist future comes immediately after the political revolution. The Democratic Republic is a representative democracy in which those in official positions are made accountable to the masses through universal, equal, and direct suffrage. It's worth noting that the imperative mandate was not an innovation of the Soviets, but rather a longstanding radical Republican demand included in social democratic programs before 1917.