Marx, Engels and Liberal Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780333462812 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 197 str.

Levin; Michael Levin; Davpd McLellan

Opis

A 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.

Spis treści

Images of democracy; towards democracy as bourgeois; the critique of liberalism; liberal and Marxist theories of political choice; parliamentarism - dangers and opportunities; beyond bourgeois society; Marx and Engels - the legacy.