Socialism and Democracy in the New Socialist Left

A proposal is made for a distinct and supervening democracy of councilist or assembly character that opposes the classic Enlightenment model. The revolutionary communist perspective is presented and its main political foundations are established, also starting from Marx. All of these ideas predominate in today's new socialist left, in one way or another,. Faced with this phenomenon, the objective of this article is to show, based on Marx's theory, that they began from a faulty understanding of the structure and functioning of the CMP.