For these two reasons alone, Lenin said communism was millions times more democratic than the status quo. They are referring to a situation created when a country kills off the inhabitants of a continent, empties another continent for slaves and then builds its wealth. These people are largely unaware that India also has democracy, with more people practicing it there, than in the rich countries combined. Yet people starve to death in India by the millions every year. Doesn't work 3.
Democracy is a goal that often gets people excited and then slaughtered.
The rich and the U.S. government spend money at home and abroad to win elections. When the Yankee imperialists and their lackeys lose elections they send in the Marines and depose elected governments or pay to subvert them. Money or guns settle the matter, not the interests of the majority. We Maoists have read history and see that people have to be prepared to fight a people's war for their destinies. Some people in the imperialist countries see the facts but do not draw the same conclusions.