Guy with hammer and sickle as twitter name LOLs at the suggestion that class in marxist analysis is not defined by...

No, class is not an income bracket. It is entirely the relationship between given individuals and the means of production.

Yes, but MOST PEOPLE making 120K are at very least petite bourgeois. You are probably a porky yourself if you're denying this.

If you are talking about "socialism is the stage between capitalism and communism" then I'm afraid you've been struck by revisionism. The stage between capitalism and communism is the dictatorship of the proletariat which is what will lead to socialism.communism.

You had socialists movement prior to Marx.

You had em afterwards too. In fact, there's still SocDem parties that call themselves "socialist parties" that have politics popularly understood to be socialism that are just slightly more generous with the public spending. What matters at the end of the day is whether or not their proposals would really change anything about capitalism. Reality doesn't give two damns about the nominal; North Korea isn't democratic either.

So you're a 18th century utopian protecting the sanctity of the word from later developments? Do remember that this applies to the word communism and commune also. Proudhon wished for a classless society without private property where people would live in "free communes". He was only not a communist in the sense that he wasn't one in the Marxist sense.

I love this meme. It is no less a democracy than America is.
The DPRK has elections, but Kim Jong Un's party is the only one that exists.
Of America one-party, the "democracy" would be very similar.

Well the thing is that at the time, socialism and communism didn't really have specific connotations like they do now.

This is satire, right? American democracy is ultimately meaningless; capital rules everything ultimately, but to tell me the "D"PRK has any legitimate form fo democracy is retarded. Give proof that isn't propaganda ministry shit or GTFO.

Are these people who are left over from Occupy Wall Street who aligned themselves with the far leftists and never got around to actually educating themselves or something?