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I mean look at Zelenskyy and Ahmed al-Sharaa, they wear the same green shirt!

I am somewhat glad that people’s opinions on Ukraine are slowly changing, I mean back in 2014, months after maidan revolution, they sent troops into Mariupol where they gunned down pro-separatist protestors on film (with even western media noting this) with one even on his knees with hands up and yet people still act like Ukraine is an example of democracy that needs to be safeguarded when in reality, it is only yet another banana republic created to serve America’s interests.

I personally recommend a system where there are multi candidate elections but all candidates have to be part of the same party. This will essentially turn the socialist party into a big tent party albeit the party will have the single goal of progressing towards socialism. Factions in the party will essentially act as a miniature parliament as factions could also create coalitions between each other.

There are two times this happened.

The Early USSR before Stalin took power with there being the right wing of the party who advocated for a market socialist economy and the continuation of voluntary collectivization, the center wing of the party (Stalin’s faction) who advocated for a centrally planned economy and forced collectivization, and finally the left wing of the party who were Trotskyists. There was nothing necessarily wrong with system except that Stalin was given a position which had too much power. The position of General Secretary was too powerful to exist in any democratic government and allowed him to destroy the separation of powers between the different factions (similar to what Trump is doing).

Late USSR under Gorbachev who allowed multi candidate elections albeit almost all candidates had to be party of the CPSU but failed because of the deterioration of the authority of the CPSU caused by the August Coup which strengthened the authority of the government of the RSFSR which was controlled by Yeltsin and friends who destroyed the USSR in support for Russian nationalism (they didn’t want Russia to subsidize its poorer republics and wanted Russia out of the CPSU/Soviet government’s authority).

It keeps the bad opinions out while keeping flexibility when it comes to socialist policies and allows proper discussions relating how to manage a socialist economy, workers rights, and social laws, etc.

To each their own.

How about one party, the Communist Party USA and multiple opinions.