Roper, Brian S. The history of democracy : : a Marxist interpretation / Brian S. Roper. . - London : Pluto Press, 2013 xv, 310 p. ; 24 cm. MRP by Saheli Roychoudhury 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. ISBN 9780745331898 (pbk.) : * Democracy - History. * Democracy - Philosophy. * Philosophy, Marxist.
