Democratic Revolution
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
battle of democracy · democratic revolution · political supremacy · revolution · ruling class
in the texts
The Communist Manifesto
The first stage of the Communist revolution, in which the proletariat wins democratic political power before undertaking economic transformation.
We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling as to win the battle of democracy.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, *i.
Hellenica
The recurring theme of political upheaval altering command and allegiance, from the Syracusan democratic banishment of generals to the revolution at Thasos.
At this time word came from home to the Syracusan generals that they had been banished by the democratic party.
At about this time a revolution took place in Thasos, and the partisans of Lacedaemon and the Laconian governor Eteonicus were driven out of the island.
Then, after most of the captains had taken oath that, when they returned to Syracuse, they would bring their generals back from exile, they sped them on their ways, commending them all;