The Laughing Man

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The radical wing insists that, according to Marx, all class rule is necessarily a dictatorship, i.e. a tyranny12. A real democracy can therefore be attained only by the establishment of a classless society, by overthrowing, if necessary violently, the capitalist dictatorship. The moderate wing does not agree with this view, but insists that democracy can to some extent be realized even under capitalism, and that it is therefore possible to conduct the social revolution by peaceful and gradual reforms.
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)
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