What a difference a crisis makes. As I write this preface, the year that was (2020) challenged
the world with the COVID-19 pandemic. And which countries stood tall, mobilizing effective …

This monograph concerns the historical development—in practice and theory—of
governance in socialist systems. Some years ago now, I began to think of a work that would …

would have agreed, he has a qualitatively different one to offer in the Communist Manifesto:
&dquo; Political power, properly so called, &dquo; he says, &dquo; is merely the organised …

It is a commonplace that Marx did not produce an account of the state to match the analytical
power of his critique of the capitalist mode of production in Das Kapital. Indeed, although this …

In my view Engels was a democrat, and the tradition would be enriched if he were reclaimed
as such. His criticisms of 'bourgeois democracy'were trenchant, and they deserve re …

Marx and Engels developed their position on the state in the context of their attempt to
understand and analyze society in general, in particular, capitalist society. Over the course …

1 64 SCIENCE àf SOCIETY tions, is something of an obstacle to de tions. As part of an
exceptional friends paradigm, all of Engels' writings and p out as part of a mutual …

GEORGE H. Sabine has asserted that"... later liberalism has tended to disintegrate either in
the direction of conservatism or in the direction of, socialism, between which it has aspired to …

A study investigating how the founders of Marxism came to terms with the emergence of
liberal democracy as a political system. It examines, in language without jargon, how they …

The philosophical background to Marx and Engels' concept of democracy has not been
seriously analysed by the research community thus far. Rather than focusing on one aspect …