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Critique and the Linguistic Transformation of Society

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The Critics of Democracy

In 1917, Vladimir Lenin gave a robust critique of democracy in capitalist societies. In fact, what he said is that within capitalist societies, there is no true democracy. The poor are excluded if they're uneducated and nobody wants to hear from them. It was democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich, that is the democracy of capitalist society.

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