Whose Democracy? Bourgeois versus popular democracy
Whose Democracy? Bourgeois versus popular democracy
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谁的民主？
DOI：
10.1080/03056248908703828
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
B. Beckman
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作者：
B. Beckman
独裁主义、军国主义和镇压统治着非洲的政治舞台。民主进步的前景和边界是什么？在非洲的条件下，自由民主是一个可行的选择吗？自由主义者也加入了激进的怀疑论者的行列，他们认为这不是：只要没有真正的资产阶级，非洲就不可能有自由主义或“资产阶级”民主。无论如何，民主真的是一个优先事项吗？本文回顾了非洲激进民主主义者提出的批评，以及从自由主义和依赖分析中得到的支持。什么是激进的民主选择？首要的问题是如何夺取国家政权;打破统治阶级对被压迫者生活的控制。在这些战略和进程中，自由民主没有得到太多的重视。然而，这种情况正在改变。越来越多的左翼力量开始接受自由民主的纲领和联盟，作为确保民众民主组织生存和扩大“民主空间”的手段。归根结底，这是一个建立民众基础的问题，从这个基础上可以对国家权力进行争夺。
Authoritarianism, militarism and repression dominate the African political scene. What are the prospects and frontiers of democratic advance? Is liberal democracy a viable option under African conditions? Radical sceptics are joined by liberals who agree that it is not: Africa cannot have liberal or 'bourgeois' democracy so long as there is no proper bourgeoisie. In any case, is democracy really a priority? This essay reviews the critique developed by African radical democrats and the support it has drawn from liberal and dependency analysis. What is the radical democratic option? The primary concern is how to capture state power; the breaking of the hold of ruling classes over the lives of the oppressed. Liberal democracy has not been given much place in such strategies and processes. This, however, is changing. Increasingly forces of the left have come to accept liberal democratic platforms and alliances as means of securing the survival of popular democratic organisations and to expand the 'democratic space'. Ultimately, it is a question of constructing the popular bases from which state power can be contested.