Democracy
The dictatorship of the proletariat - Maximilien Rubel
Maximilian Rubel's 1976 contribution to the debate around the French Communist Party's 'abandonment' of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In it, he characterises it as being linked to the party's long-term abandonment of Marx and the primacy of the struggles of the working class in favour of their own vanguardist ambitions.
In the current debate on the French Communist Party’s (PCF) “abandoning” of the dictatorship of the proletariat one essential point which merits our particular attention for its pre-eminence in clarifying the meaning and nature of this decision seems to have been overlooked: it is precisely the Party which has taken upon itself the right to determine whether or not the proletariat should exercise
A different sort of democracy - Martin Glaberman
The following article was written as an introduction to C.L.R. James' Every Cook can Govern. It has been slightly edited for publication with the author's permission. It contrasts the weakness of capitalist democracy, comparing it to the democracy of ancient Greece as well as a directly democratic society run by the working class.
Celebrations of the 2,500th anniversary of the creation of a democratic society in ancient Greece took place in 1991. Dignitaries from the various Western democracies attended ceremonies in Greece.
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Autonomy - Gilles Dauve (2008)
In a text written for a "Vår Makt" seminar - held in Malmö, Sweden on 1-2 November 2008 - Dauve surveys the various theories of democracy and their limits.
Source; the Vår Makt site - http://www.motarbetaren.se/vm08/texter.html
"Communism Against Democracy" Treason pamphlet
The two texts in this pamphlet are communist critiques of democracy. Not just “bourgeois democracy”
but democracy as such. Democracy implies the separation of people into isolated, warring individuals.
This isolation will be overcome in struggles against capitalism (and thus democracy). These struggles
Politics and the State
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947
POLITICS AND THE STATE
( 1871 )
We have repelled energeticly every alliance with bourgeois politics, even of the most radical nature. It has been pretended, foolishly and slanderously, that we repudiated all such Political connivance because we were indifferent to the great question of Liberty, and considered only the economic or material side of the problem.
Fascism / Anti-Fascism - Gilles Dauvé
An analysis of the liberal and leftist obsessions with fascism and anti-fascism, and the role of workers in opposing it internationally.
Totalitarianism & Fascism
