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Marxism and Democracy

Marxism and Democracy

Femia, Joseph V.

Paperback

Series: Marxist Introductions

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0198279213
ISBN13: 9780198279211
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Aug 26 1993
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.39 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
The collapse of the Soviet Union would seem to sound the death knell for Marxism as a blueprint for social change. Why has this doctrine--the repository of so many hopes and dreams--failed in its grand ambition to liberate the human race from poverty and oppression? Through a critical and systematic analysis of what Marx and his interpreters had to say about democracy, Joseph Femia sheds light on the reasons for this failure. His book explores the bewildering variety of Marxist attitudes to democracy, and relates this diversity to Marxism's inconsistent goals: active political participation and all-embracing central planning, human emancipation and collective submission to the dialectical truths of history. Dr. Femia explains why Marxism's internal contradictions have always, in practice, been solved through the imposition of despotic modes of government. Marxism's tragic flaw, he concludes, is its unwillingness to recognize the distinctiveness and independence of the individual.

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