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Marxism and Democracy (Paperback, Revised)
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Marxism and Democracy (Paperback, Revised)
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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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