The limitations and advances of various forms of democracy in class society, from its roots in ancient Greece through its rise and decline under capitalism.
Discusses the emergence of Bonapartism, military dictatorship, and fascism, and how democracy will be advanced under a workers and farmers regime.
“A valuable contribution to the study of the evolution of democracy.… showing …the mass upheaval that marked the transition from feudalism to capitalism, but that the new freedoms primarily benefited the new ruling class, the bourgeoisie.” —Library Journal