Democracy
Democracy[a] is a system under which the majority of the population has rule over the state, or more particularly the class the has control of the state. Democracy has multiple forms, including bourgeois and proletarian democracy, only the latter of which is truly ruled by the majority of the population. Under class society, democracy is only able to be realized for the exploiting minority of the population, with the exploited class being subjected to the dictatorship of the ruling strata through the oppressive institutions of the state.[2]
"Thinking men of all classes begin to see that a new line must be struck out, and that this line can only be in the direction of democracy. But in England, where the industrial and agricultural working class forms the immense majority of the people, democracy means the dominion of the working class, neither more nor less." —Frederick Engels[3]
Forms
Bourgeois democracy
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Proletarian democracy
"Proletarian democracy is a million times more democratic than any bourgeois democracy; Soviet power is a million times more democratic than the most democratic bourgeois republic.” —Vladimir Lenin, Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
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See also
References
- ↑ "δημοκρατία" Ancient Greek usage. Wiktionary.
- ↑ Vladimir Lenin (1918). The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky, Ch. 1, "How Kautsky Turned Marx Into A Common Liberal". Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.
- ↑ A Working Men's Party (1881). Available on the Marxists Internet Archive.