Socialism and democracy are the same. Socialism is a more genuine democracy than a "bourgeois democracy", democracy that ignores or glosses over the power imbalances between rich and poor.
Socialism is far too nuanced and complicated a subject for this sound bite, bumper sticker, short concentration span society. Most people here know just enough about socialism " to be dangerous", as it were.
Any socialism has its origin in democratic intent. The authoritarian Marxism's, the different Leninisms of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tze Tung, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Mihn, Kim Jong Il, etc. were revisionist Marxsims that diverged pretty widely from Marx's thinking in its scientific basis and thus its political economic philosophy.
Marx believed that a society had to be industrialised to be able to effect socialism. Socialist revolution was for the informed, urban proletariat not the dark, superstitious agrarian peasant. Thus society had to first go through a phase of capitalism and bourgeois democracy - resulting from its nascent industrialization which overthrew the feudal order.
Lenin and all the Leninists following him ignored this and tried to effect top down socialism by force, trying to artificially install something that must evolve naturally.