"I think I was very lucky to be brought up by people who were the products of socialist democracy," he said, and he means it.

It is a revolutionary socialist democracy adopted from communism.

"There is no socialist or bourgeois democracy," a legislator said, arguing for new terminology.

The paper said his ouster contradicted "the principles of socialist democracy."

Due to his commitment to socialist democracy, he has even been characterised as "Luxemburgist".

The official replied that the party was striving to perfect "socialist democracy."

I am in favour of a programmatically planned multi-party socialist democracy and economy.

He also said local elec-toral changes would be begun to develop a "socialist democracy."

Small man, big world: A discussion of socialist democracy (1949)

The goal of reform, he said, was to build a "socialist democracy" and "absolutely not a Western, multiparty parliamentary system".