I regret that I have to respond here. I could agree that 'the basic opposite of capitalist democracy is socialism.' Socialism implies the broadest democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism. 'The Soviet Union in the Stalin era' is not socialism. That was Stalinism, and it is because of the equating of socialism with Stalinism that socialism became unpopular in Europe, especially in countries that had experience with it. I can express my opinion that due to Stalinism, socialism lost its appeal to the working masses around the world, particularly in developed European countries. No one (at least the majority) would want to live in an autocratic regime where individual freedoms do not exist, even if they would have free education, free healthcare, and guaranteed employment, but where someone else makes all decisions for them. That is why in developed capitalist countries, the bourgeois press insists that what existed in the Soviet Union during and after Stalin's time was socialism. As if to say, 'if you really want socialism, there it is in the Soviet Union.' Would you want to live in such a system?
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