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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America

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The Relationship Between Democracy and Dilemma in the Marxist Language

In marxist language when we call something a dictatorship what we're just saying is that wherever there's class society there's going to be a dictatorship of a given class. While technically the u.s is a formal democracy in marxist terms we understand it as a dictatorship with the bourgeoisie. Under bourgeois rules only through the outsourcing of real democratic power to representatives who then go through the institutions of bourgeois rule and represent their constituency or their people. So ironically these terms democracy and dictatorship are seen as at odds with one another but in reality Democracy is really only a facade under the dictatorship of the proletariatgiven the right amounts of like democratic mechanisms.

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