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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago

The people in powerful positions in the Communist Party got there because people voted them in. What’s hard to understand here?

You know who is the ruling class in capitalist countries, right? It’s the capitalists. It doesn’t matter how egalitarian the political system appears on paper, because de-facto the capitalist class rules.