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Example: The early Soviet Union under Lenin was the classic attempt at a Democracy of the Proletariat. Workers' councils (soviets) existed, but ultimate authority rested with the Bolshevik Party, which claimed to act in the workers' name while systematically dismantling rival parties, independent unions, and dissent, arguing this was necessary to prevent a bourgeois counter-revolution.
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Example: “His demarcatiology research showed that the ‘pseudoscience’ label was applied inconsistently: UFOlogy was ridiculed, while similarly speculative string theory branches were protected. The difference wasn’t method—it was institutional power.”
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