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The History of Democracy
A Marxist Interpretation
Roper, Brian S.
Publisher: PlutoYear Published: 2013
Pages: 310pp ISBN: 978-0-7453-3189-8
Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
Subject Headings
- Absolutism
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Societies
- Anti-Democratic Ideologies & Structures
- Aristocracy
- Assemblies
- Athenian Democracy
- Bolshevism
- Bourgeois Ideology
- Bourgeoisie
- British History
- Capitalist Legal System
- Chartists
- Citizen Involvement
- Citizens' Participation
- Citizens' Rights
- Citizenship
- Civil Liberties
- Class
- Class Conflict/Class Struggle
- Constitutional Change/Constitutional Amendments
- Constitutional Law
- Debt Bondage
- Democracy
- Democratic Development
- Democratic Movements
- Democratic Socialism
- Democratic Values
- Democratization
- Elections
- Electoral Politics
- Electoral Reform
- English Revolution
- Feudalism
- French History
- Globalization
- Greek History
- Inequality
- Land Ownership
- Land Tenure
- Lenin, V.I.
- Levellers
- Liberty
- Marxism
- Marxist Theory of the State
- Middle Ages
- Middle Class
- Paris Commune
- Parliament
- Parliamentary Democracies
- Parliamentary Reform
- Participatory Democracy
- Peasant Uprisings
- Peasants
- Petitions
- Property Rights
- Property Rights vs. Democracy
- Recall
- Representative Democracy
- Revolution/Study of
- Revolutions of 1848-49
- Riots
- Roman History
- Ruling Class
- Russian Revolution
- Russian Revolution of 1905
- Slavery
- Socialism
- Surplus Value
- Taxation
- U.S. History
- Voting
- Voting Rights (Suffrage)
- War
- Women's History
- Workers' Control
- Workers' Councils
- Working Class
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