Classes and Elites in Democracy and Democratization: A Collection of Readings

372 Pages·2020·15.392 MB·English

by  Eva Etzioni Halevy

Classes and Elites in
Democracy and Democratization
Garland Reference Library of Social Science
(Vol. 1083)
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Classes and Elites in
Democracy and Democratization
A Collection of Readings
Edited by
Eva Etzioni-Halevy
GARLAND PUBLISHING, INC.
New York & London
1997
Transferred to Digital Printing 2008
Copyright © 1997 by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Classes and elites in democracy and democratization : a collection of
readings / edited by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
p. cm. — (Garland reference library of social science ; v. 1083)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8153-2204-6 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8153-2864-8 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Social classes. 2. Elite (Social sciences) 3. Democracy.
I. Etzioni-Halevy, Eva. II. Series.
HN90.S6C56 1997
305.5—dc21 97-11283
CIP
Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint
but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent.
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History has thrust upon our generation an indescribably
important destiny—to complete a process of democratization.
—Martin Luther King JJ
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Contents
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Introduction xxiii
PART I: Classes in Democracy and
Democratization—Classical Analyses 3
Ruling Class, Proletariat, and Bourgeois Democracy 7
Selections from the Works of
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Intellectuals and the Hegemony of the Dominant
Class in Modern Western Democracies 12
Selections from the Work of
Antonio Gramsci
Repressive Tolerance in Contemporary Democracy 18
Selections from the Work of
Herbert Marcuse
The Reproduction of Working-Class Exploitation
in Capitalist Democracies 24
Selections from the Work of
Louis Althusser
The Democratic Route to Modern Society 30
Selections from the Work of
Barrington Moore
Some Social Requisites of Democracy 37
Seymour Martin Lipset