Democracy is indispensable to socialism.
One cannot live in society and be free from society.
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.