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Paperback The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why Book

ISBN: 0231124856

ISBN13: 9780231124850

The Specter of Democracy: What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why

(Part of the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Series)

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In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard argues that the collapse of European communism in 1989 should not be identified with a victory for capitalism and makes possible a wholesale reevaluation of democratic politics in the U.S. and abroad. The author turns to the American and French Revolutions to uncover what was truly "revolutionary" about those events, arguing that two distinct styles of democratic life emerged, the implications...

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