[@Dinh AaronMk] This message you relayed is about someone who is in a political minority ranting that the majority of society doesn't agree with them. It is not the case that everyone in Britain in 1992 wanted Neil Kinnock to win and Major pulled through only from system inertia. The policies of John Major, as disdainfully stale as a young socialist of the time might have found them, were the ideas favoured by the British electorate over any other ideas expressed.

The elite did not kill socialism because they feared it. The people killed socialism because they were against it. All genuine socialists of today, at least in the West, are necessarily in the vein of Blanqui, wanting to enforce the workers' liberation upon them whether they'd like it or not. It is true that democracy cannot be relied upon to produce socialism: not because of the irrevocability of the existing system, but because there is no democratic will for socialism.