| Description |
1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Methodology -- 1. Dialectical Materialism -- 2. Science and Ideology -- 3. Dialectics and Metaphysics -- Part One Capitalism and Democracy -- 1 A Dialectical Materialist Approach to Democracy -- 1.1. Ancient Athenian Democracy -- 1.2. Modern Representative Democracy -- 1.3. The Classics on the Bourgeois Democratic Form -- 1.4. Democratic Form and Class Consciousness -- 1.5. Working-Class Engagement With Parliamentary Politics -- 1.6. Reform or Revolution |
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2 Democracy in the Stage of Imperialism -- 2.1. Marxist Conception of Imperialism -- 2.2. Coercion in the Imperialist Stage -- 2.2.1. Repression of the Working-Class Movement -- 2.2.2. Authoritarian Democracy -- 2.3. Consensus in the Imperialist Stage -- 2.4. Imperialism and the Struggle for Democracy -- 2.5. Lesser-Evilism as a Consensus Mechanism -- 3 'Radical' Theories of Democracy -- 3.1. Social Democracy -- 3.2. Eurocommunism and Democracy -- 3.3. Radical Democracy and the Multitude -- 3.4. Radical Democracy and Populism -- 3.5. Left Populism -- 4 Democracy and Digital Capitalism |
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4.1. New Social Media and Democracy -- 4.2. New Social Media and the Reproduction of False Consciousness -- 4.3. Political Economy of Digital Platforms -- 4.4. Fettering the Potential of Technological Development -- Part Two Democracy and Socialism -- 5 Social-Democratic Constitutionalism -- 5.1. 'Socialist' Constitutionalism -- 5.2. 'Socialist' Republicanism -- 5.3. 'Socialist Constitutionalism of the Twenty-First Century'- the Case of the Bolivarian Constitution -- 6 Socialist Constitutionalism -- 6.1. Principles for a Socialist Constitutionalism -- 6.2. On Socialist Democracy and Rights |
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6.3. Democracy and Bureaucracy -- 6.4. Democracy and Revolutionary Interest -- 6.5. Institutional Forms of Workers' Power -- 7 The Democratic Form in Communism -- Epilogue: Democracy and the Communist Movement -- Index |
| Summary |
This book examines how the democratic form and the struggle for democracy reflects, influences and shapes the struggle for social emancipation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003861270 |
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100386127X |
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