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- Democracy_in_Marxism abstract "Marxism holds that "democracy is the road to socialism," as Karl Marx believed (although no one can find this line in his complete works), democracy being Greek for "rules of the masses." The Marxist view believes that the capitalist state cannot be democratic by its nature, as it represents the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie[citation needed]. Marxism views democracy under capitalism as an unrealistic utopia. This is because they believe that in a capitalist state all "independent" media and most political parties are controlled by capitalists and one either needs large financial resources or to be supported by the bourgeoisie to win an election. Vladimir Lenin (1917) believed that in a capitalist state, the system focuses on resolving disputes within the ruling bourgeoisie class and ignores the interests of the proletariat or labour class which are not represented and therefore dependent on the bourgeoisie's good will:"Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich – that is the democracy of capitalist society. If we look more closely into the machinery of capitalist democracy, we see everywhere, in the “petty” – supposedly petty – details of the suffrage (residential qualifications, exclusion of women, etc.), in the technique of the representative institutions, in the actual obstacles to the right of assembly (public buildings are not for “paupers"!), in the purely capitalist organization of the daily press, etc., etc., – we see restriction after restriction upon democracy. These restrictions, exceptions, exclusions, obstacles for the poor seem slight, especially in the eyes of one who has never known want himself and has never been in close contact with the oppressed classes in their mass life (and nine out of 10, if not 99 out of 100, bourgeois publicists and politicians come under this category); but in their sum total these restrictions exclude and squeeze out the poor from politics, from active participation in democracy.” (Lenin, State and Revolution, Chapter 5)Moreover, even if representatives of the proletariat class are elected in a capitalist country, Marxists claim they have limited power over the country's affairs as the economic sphere is largely controlled by private capital and therefore the representative's power to act is curtailed. Hence Marxists-Leninists see a socialist revolution necessary to bring power into hands of oppressed classes.".
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- Democracy_in_Marxism comment "Marxism holds that "democracy is the road to socialism," as Karl Marx believed (although no one can find this line in his complete works), democracy being Greek for "rules of the masses." The Marxist view believes that the capitalist state cannot be democratic by its nature, as it represents the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie[citation needed]. Marxism views democracy under capitalism as an unrealistic utopia.".
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