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Eleanor Morley

Democratic struggles and permanent revolution

Socialism 2022

Some of the most heroic struggles of the oppressed in history have been for democratic or national rights. But every struggle that leaves capitalism intact only leads to new forms of inequality and oppression - often ruled over by the former heroes of the democratic/national struggle, turned capitalist tyrants. How then should socialists approach struggles for democracy, for national liberation, and so on?