The Nature of Democracy Freedom and Revolution
The Nature of Democracy Freedom and Revolution
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by Herbert Aptheker
InternationalPublishers, New York, 1967, 2001
Paperback – 128 pages
Description
The author discusses the origins of the bourgeois concepts of democracy and freedom in their historical development. The first chapter deals with the ideas of John Milton, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill and democracy and class. Other chapters look at the nature of and various concepts of freedom. The final four chapters deal with aspects of revolution, including definitions, non-socialist and socialist, the questions of violence and democracy. An important book dealing with concepts that are widely misunderstood.