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In this book, John Ehrenberg offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and argues that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. He traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and of Engels through to Lenin's death in 1924. His book also offers insights about contemporary socialism's theoretical and political crises.

Product Description: For 25 years now, the Right has been successfully using the rhetoric of freedom and democracy to build support for the politics of wealth and privilege. It has traveled a long way from earlier appearances as the marginalized defender of an idle and backward-looking upper crust and the patriotic champion of an aggrieved and ignored minority...read more