left-reminders:

During the time of Marx, the term “dictatorship” didn’t have the same political context as it does today. If you ask LDR, we argue that continued use of the phrase “dictatorship of the proletariat” in conversations without sufficient scaffolding suggests a certain dogmatism with regard to semantics choice. If socialism is to be viable with the people of today, language choice is key. “Radical democracy of the proletariat” is a phrase that can properly convey what Marx always meant to a modern listener, without causing them to picture the tyranny and autocracy that accompanies the term “dictatorship”.

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