And Democrats are better than republicans. But you still don’t generally see people advocating to be more like neoliberals. Something leninists should take a clue on

Was the Soviet Union technically more democratic than czarist Russia? Not meaningfully. Anyone who would have democratically disagreed. Was often exiled to siberia, imprisoned, or just executed.

Perhaps had Stalin not been a failure at everything including stepping down things would have been different. But here we are.