TY - BOOK AU - Roper,Brian S TI - History of democracy : a Marxist interpretation SN - 9780745331904 AV - JC421 .R784 2013 U1 - 321.8 22 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Democracy KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Marxist N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index; Origins: democracy in the ancient Greek world --Democracy suppressed: the Roman republic and empire -- The early Middle Ages and the transition from feudalism to capitalism -- The English Revolution and parliamentary democracy -- The American Revolution and constitutional redefinition of democracy -- The revolutionary revival of democracy in France -- The revolutions of 1848-49 -- Capitalist expansion, globalisation and democratisation -- The Marxist critique of capitalism and representative democracy -- Precursors of socialist participatory democracy: the Paris Commune 1871 and Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917 ER -