Marxism and Democracy

active alliance analysis and/or Antonio Gramsci apparatuses argues argument articulation aspect authoritarian autonomy bloc bourgeois democracy bourgeoisie capitalist central character civil society class forces class struggle complex conception concerned conjuncture consent constituted construction context contradiction corporatism crisis critique debate determined dictatorship discourses discussion effects electoral elements existing forms of political Gramsci hegemony historical ibid individual integral intellectual interests interpellation intervention involved issues Kautsky Kautsky's labour Laclau leaders and led Lenin liberal liberal democracy Marx's Marxist theory masses means monopoly capitalism movement Nicos Poulantzas notion officialdom-people organization parliament parliamentary democracy particular party passive revolution political forces popular-democratic posed position possible Poulantzas practices Prison Notebooks problem production programme proletarian democracy proletariat question reform relations of force relations of production relationship representation representative representative democracy revolutionary role sense simply social democracy social forces socialist specific structure terrain theoretical traditional transformation unity