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Which is why we must support NATO and a Democrat-led United States. Russia is fascist, China is fascist, Republicans are fascist
My friend is some type of anarcho-bidenist and he keeps posting cringe 
Has there been a successful socialist revolution in a democratic republic? So far we've had:
China is a bit arguable because the republican Xinhai revolution was in 1911 but the civil war between the republican government and the communists didn't really kick off until 1927, but that doesn't seem like a long enough time in republican democracy to really affect things. At that point you might as well include Russia which operated as a sort of republican democracy for 7 months in 1917.
Any other examples?
Latin America broadly proves that liberal democratic systems can approach socialism, as long as the need to resist imperialism exists. If it can go all the way is yet to be demonstrated.
In Russia the monarchs were already out of power right? I think the provisional government was more similar to other parliamentary systems or whatever. Bourgeoisie dictatorship.
For like seven months in the midst of a war economy yeah. Most people don't even know about the February revolution.