Mike Ballard wrote: > I think Marx and Engels meant for democracy to be expanded beyond the > dictatorship of the capitalist class i.e. bourgeois democracy, into a > proletarian democracy. IOW, they weren't opposed to elections. I think they > did believe that eventually the workers would realise their own political and > industrial power through mass, class conscious organisation.<
right. Examine Marx's writings on the Paris Commune to see how he described (and approved of) efforts to _deepen_ democracy. It's pretty clear that he opposed what was later described as "substitutionism," in which some leader, political party, government, or country is seen as substituting for (speaking for, thinking for, and/or acting for) the proletariat. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
