georgephillip
Diamond Member
Marx believed democracy was essential for the implementation of communism; although, he was using "democracy" significantly differently from modern liberal or parliamentary democracy.No, he changed parties because he finally started to see what many disparaged and frustrated conservatives have been observing since the 90's which then got ramped up when Obama started to "fundamentally change America". The Democrat party is the hidden party of Communists and Socialists and Marxists who want to destroy what our country is by taking advantage of our freedoms to do so.
Karl Marx said, before you could implement Communism, you had to have a Democracy to take advantage of first.
Marx believed the working class must first establish itself as the ruling class (dictatorship of the proletariat for communism to win at the polls.
GoogleAI Overview:
"Key aspects of Marx's view on democracy and communism include:
- "Winning the 'Battle for Democracy': In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote that the first step in the working-class revolution is to 'win the battle for democracy'.
- Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Marx saw the intermediate stage between capitalism and communism—socialism—as the 'dictatorship of the proletariat.' He viewed this not as a minority dictatorship (like a typical dictatorship), but as a majority rule of the working class (the proletariat) over the former ruling class (the bourgeoisie).
- 'True' Democracy vs. 'Bourgeois' Democracy: Marx criticized Western parliamentary systems as 'bourgeois democracy,' which he argued was actually a dictatorship of the capitalist class that allowed the oppressed to only 'once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament.'"