
State, Democracy, and Transition: Is There a “Democratic Road” to Socialism?
Cosmopod
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The Democratic Paradigm Conquers Democracy
Without the necessary means to carry out its designs, notions of democracy in a general will ring somewhat hollow without relevant meaning. Those freedoms that can be recognized are effectively only for those with sufficient resources to exercise them. In practice, there is no true freedom of communication, but only the freedom of the owners of the media to exercise their property rights. For this reason, there can never be a citizen self-government under capitalism,. Only management by public authorities of the general conditions for capitalist reproduction. The political program of the revolution, conquered democracy.
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