How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
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The Problem Isn't With Socialists, Right?
Some self-described democratic socialists say that the problem here is not with socialists who want to seize and use state power, but with the lack of accountability through democratic elections. I think this is probably the perspective that you read in Jacobin mostly, which is that there's not an opposition to a centralized state. The sense is that in fact you need a powerful state in order to get things done. If you're going to totally transform, if you were to create a green economy, for instance, you need the power of the state to be able to move resources around,. But we can hold the state accountable of the problem with Leninism and Stalinism was the elimination of popular input into what
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