The Importance of Opposition and Resistance to Socialism

There is very little discussion of opposition to the building of socialism, but or otherwise. Most of the literature on democratic socialism plainly seems to endorse an electoral, parliamentary reformist route to socialism. The measures implemented by democratically elected socialists will face ferocious, sometimes violent opposition just as surely as would socialist revolutionaries during and in the immediate after a revolution. One obvious approach to dealing with and neutralizing the resistance of the capitalist class is to curtail some of the capitalist's rights.