Has any election in human history ever actually disrupted a class hierarchy?

True, but also as a tactic (IE voting in socialism) its a complete historical failure that should be relegated to the history books. There has not been a single case of a country acheiving socialism through the ballot box.

All the attempts in the late 1800s until now showed that capitalists will not give up state power without violence, and even explicitly socialist parties who acheived some electoral success, end up quickly capitulating to the demands of the capitalists who run the country's economy, and make a hard turn to the right. Look at the state of the European "socialist" or "labour" parties.

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy's job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Not to mention all the coups the US carried out even on countries who attempted to tread a "non-violent" socialist path: like Chile in 1970. While the countries who took control of the military and went through a civil war to disempower and nationalize capital are still standing on their own two feet: Cuba, China, Vietnam, DPRK.

"Democratic socialism" is also sometimes used (incorrectly) to refer to capitalist-run states in the imperial core (like the nordic states) with some welfare band-aids, funded on the backs of the world's workers in the global south.

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn't Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia's covert role in western imperialism

Not a theory, an illusion

What you describe is called social democracy. And, in my opinion, it is an ideological cul-de-sac.

The type of person who vote for 99.99% Hitler to stop the 100% Hitler and don't understand why everything is shit down the line.

You have way more patience than I do, and I applaud that. I'm going to be charitable and assume this .worlder didn't bother reading the article beyond the excerpt, because it's way more upsetting if they did.

I had just watched a video on YouTube yesterday about how the CIA used missionaries and commodities to try to control indigenous peoples, and I was reminded of that when I read the article this morning. The world doesn't have to be this way, and it's beyond sad that so many people seem to think it can't be any better than it is.