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BOG PERSON

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2. does struggle for democracy in this sense

Reply to Starry Messenger (Original post)

Sun Nov 4, 2012, 03:32 PM

Nov 2012

mean struggle for bourgeois-democratic (political / generalizable) rights in combination with struggle for proletarian power? e.g. for universal suffrage, for the right to unionize, against imperialist war, etc., or does it mean something else.

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Lenin on the Need to Fight for Democracy Under Capitalism [View all] Starry Messenger Aug 2012 OP

Sorry to kick up an old thread, but I'm having an argument with someone elsewhere. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #1

does struggle for democracy in this sense BOG PERSON Nov 2012 #2

No, I don't think so. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #3

"If you can achieve them under capitalism, why wait?" BOG PERSON Nov 2012 #4

This was the argument I was in elsewhere. Starry Messenger Nov 2012 #5