Beschreibung:
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.
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.