Electoral socialism:
The idea that the dictatorship of the proletariat and a socialist society can be achieved through liberal democratic means, i.e. getting elected on a socialist platform
The idea that socialism could be achieved via elections was originally professed by Marx. He initially wrote that
but later in his life began to move away from that idea. Later he professed that
Engels, for his credit, wrote the following:
Lenin would write in arguably his most famous work The State and Revolution the most scathing criticisms of electoral socialism and electoral politics in general:
And he would write in 1912 on the American elections of the same year:
By contrast, democratic socialist Eduard Bernstein would write in Evolutionary Socialism:
And Karl Kautsky, a German social democrat, would write in 1912:
So, socialists of NationStates, here's my question:
Is "electoral socialism" a possibility?