The history of democracy: a Marxist interpretation

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Origins: Democracy in the Ancient Greek World 2. Democracy Suppressed: The Roman Republic 3. The Early Middle Ages and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism 4. The English Revolution and Parliamentary Democracy 5. The American Revolution and Constitutional Redefinition of Democracy 6. The Revolutionary Revival of Democracy in France 7. The Revolutions of 1848-49 8. Capitalist Expansion, Globalization and Democratization 9. The Marxist Critique of Capitalism and Representative Democracy 10. Precursors of Socialist Participatory Democracy: The Paris Commune 1871 and Russian Revolutions 1905 and 1917 General Bibliography