The Problem of Democracy in a Socialized Economy

The conditions of possibility for citizen self-government are absolutely incompatible with the existence of capital, writes Max. Only a society freed from its subjection to blind market power can carry out a conscious, rational and democratic regulation of nature," he says. Marx has never disparaged those civil rights that can be won, but neither do they confuse or assimilate these rights or freedoms with democracy itself,. He adds: The recognition of certain rights of citizenship takes place exclusively within the national state.