The Laughing Man

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Another important consequence of the theory is that, in principle, all government, even democratic government, is a dictatorship of the ruling class over the ruled. ‘The executive of the modern state’, says the Manifesto7, ‘is merely a committee for managing the economic affairs of the whole bourgeoisie …’ What we call a democracy is, according to this theory, nothing but that form of class dictatorship which happens to be most convenient in a certain historical situation. (This doctrine does not agree very well with the class equilibrium theory of the moderate wing mentioned above.) And just ...more
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Routledge Classics)
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