ABSTRACT
The state socialists, however, would simply replace representative institutions with some form of socialist dictatorship. This would assure the best implementation and progress of socialist equalitarianism, without interference by the bourgeoisie and other self-serving interests. The historical record now shows that the people are not only willing, but sometimes will demand to go to war. Nonetheless, the classical liberal's view of democracy's peacefulness was insightful and if followed through later in our century by scholars, practitioners, and activists might have enlarged the zone of democratic peace. The democracy promotes peace is truly a matter of insight and knowledge gained and lost among political philosophers to be rediscovered through rigorous theoretical and empirical research. Capitalism and democracy is not the same thing. Democratic socialist systems exist, as in Sweden and Denmark, as do authoritarian capitalist systems like Chile and Taiwan in the 1980s.
