Marx, Engels and Liberal DemocracyA study investigating how the founders of Marxism came to terms with the emergence of liberal democracy as a political system. It examines, in language without jargon, how they defined democracy and how they evaluated the liberal constitutional state, by placing their ideas in historical context. |
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Towards Democracy as Bourgeois | 15 |
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