POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liberal Democracy, Social Democracy, Statism
13 Dec 2013
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Western democracies definition of itself is in stark contrast with communism and fascism. Over the course of the 19th century, britain demonstrated the epitome of structured, liberal democracy. Liberal institutions developed even where social basis was not obviously present, such as. There was an ever widening of the right to the vote. The right to vote used to be based on social status, race, property ownership and etc the working class was being granted the right to vote. Evolutionary socialism and reconciliation with liberal democracy: electoral socialism. This was largely the story of western europe. However in eastern europe, a much different ideology was being cultivated. Karl marx was a big advocate of getting means of production to the working class. Lenin: revolutionary movement under conditions of authoritarianism russia. Lenin"s answer was that if you were to rule under an autocracy and try to form a revolution you would have to do so with a secret police and under conspiracy.
