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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Socialist states end up in a dictatorship of the proletariat, usually in some form of democratic centralism.

Capitalist states end up in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, otherwise known as bourgeois democracy or oligarchy, with occasional lapses into fascism.