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7. People are sovereign:{{verify}} Has been used to critique “bourgeois democracy” by Lenin, a term referring to the representative models used in most countries, or systems where who can vote is limited. A more modern critique would ask for increased direct democracy.
7. People are sovereign:{{verify}} Has been used to critique “bourgeois democracy” by Lenin, a term referring to the representative models used in most countries, or systems where who can vote is limited. A more modern critique would ask for increased direct democracy.


8. Common, collective, and/or state ownership of the means of production, or at the very least more influence for workers.{{verify|reason=This is communism, not socialism.}}
8. Common, collective, and/or state{{verify|reason=This is communism, not socialism.}} ownership of the means of production, or at the very least more influence for workers.


9. Wage slavery:{{verify}} Among the more extreme ideas, usually pushed by Utopians, Communists, and Anarchists, that any form of monetary pay for work is inherently slave-like. See [[Wikipedia]] for more about this idea is probably a better idea than looking here.
9. Wage slavery:{{verify}} Among the more extreme ideas, usually pushed by Utopians, Communists, and Anarchists, that any form of monetary pay for work is inherently slave-like. See [[Wikipedia]] for more about this idea is probably a better idea than looking here.