ciro wrote: I have a question
ciro wrote:
I have a question from long time: how much and how clearly democracy is present in Marx writing? I am a socialist but i never red Marx – reading Marx is in my long term plans. In October socialist monthly Italian call I was presenting this argument. They said that, in their opinion (if I am not wrong), in marx works Democracy is not very present but present; we can say it is implicitly stated. GianMaria also said that Marx, as a politician, acted democratically and the fact that he was going to live in England is somehow a signal that he loved democracy. So I was happy. Last week end I read a newspaper of some Italian Marxist – Leninist (“Lotta Comunista”) where they was opposing comunism and democracy: so, in their opinion, Communism can not be democratic. Clearly, it is normal that Leninist are not democratic. And it is clear that we we are for democracy. My questions are: 1)how much democracy is in Marx texts? 2)can it be that this party takes its democracy from Anglo-Saxon democratic tradition, so this is a kind of Anglo-Saxon democratic tradition Marxism/Socialism? From my personal point of view, when I had the occasion to know your (and now mine!) ideas I liked to join them. I did not care where they come from. Only now I start needing to invistigate on their provenience.I am not English mother tongue (I am Italian) so thanks in advance if you can write not too complex
Here is a link which you may find useful. Long but not too complex hopefully :)http://marxmyths.org/hal-draper/article2.htm