How can democracy and Socialism exist at the same time?

[Tihon]

Firstly let's arrange that Stalinism has nothing in common with socialism/communism and with marxism at all. It is completely enough to read "In Memory Of Catalunia" by George Orwell or "Revolution Betrayed" by Leon Trotskiy to get it. In the second place i'm very surprising by the people speaking in 21th century about "equal opportunities" inside the capitalist system. Do you think the 841 millions of constantly malnourished people (by official UN statistics) have really equal opportunities with G. Bush, jr? Guys, you're making me laugh. Do you really think the people in Niger Delta region living without the roads, schools, electricity, medical equipment and drugs, even water-pipes have equal rights and opportunities with Chevron-Texaco oil multinational owners profiting $20 billions yearly on their myseries? Do you believe that Vietnam children working 14 hours per day at goddamned Nike factories in slave conditions have fairy "equality" with Nike top managers? Who can better opportunities to get more qualitive food, medical treatment, education, etc., people who have a big lot of money or people working sometimes larger part of their lifes for benefits of this bastards? By the way, there are more then 1 billion people in the world still illiterate. You argued about Bill Gates? Oh, yeah, he's not from Zambia or something like that where "structural reforms" of IMF keeping people in abject poverty. Overwhelming majority in the world have no any chance to get even Bill Gates cleaner's education in the world where 20% of people own 80% of wealth. Third point. Some repeating borgeois propagandistic BS about "destructivity", "cruelty" and "bloodthirstiness" of communism as itself but I'm just asking you what about 500,000 innocent Iraq children killed during the 90th by US punishing economic sanctions, if them guilty in deeds of Hussein? what about thousand Yugoslavian civilians killed by NATO bombings, if them guilty in deeds of Miloshevich? what about millions of people killed by "democratic" totalitarists in Guatemala, Chili, Indonesia, another bloody dictatorships, not less bloody then USSR in 30th but treated to "Great Ideals of Democracy defenders" friendly. That's just the most obvious facts about "justice" in the neoliberal world, world of "freedom" and "equal opportunities". And what about the millions of people starving to death in the third world every year, what's their guilt? You can compare their dinner with enormous size of stake in usual european or american restaurant, for example. This stake too big to be eaten if you eat something else, but a lot of third world people would be happy to get handful of beans while you read it. The capitalism as the system based on profit, not on humanity, is really cruel, barbarist, destructive system, more destructive (at least by the number of victims) even then Stalinism. And it must be buried as Stalinism at least in the names of it's victims. Finally, a few words about democracy as the way of organization of power. Originally, democracy means power of demos, power of free citizens without any participations of slaves. Democracy origins as political system based on limitation of rights of majority and nothing get changed in angle of fenomenology. Majority of people of ancient Greece had no access to voting, majority of modern people have no access to impartial information and what's more they still have no access to making decisions. So, any democracy can never exist without slaves. In other words, according to keen expression of Ulrika Meinhof, "democracy is a latent fascism".
Socialism, in one's turn, is the only valid alternative to this repressive misantropic system. So, the point is not if we should stand for socialism or not but how we should operate to build true socialism (and it only will be true democracy) and how to protect it against another bureaucratical degenaration.