This publication features analysis and is designed to provide much-needed clarity on what is and what is not at stake in the bourgeois elections.
Table of Contents
I. Workers vs. bosses: democracy and class society
II. Democracy for the Ruling Class
- Ideology and economics in class society
- Democracy in pre-class societies
- Ancient Greece and Rome: democracy for the few
- How the French Revolution was won
III. Democracy and U.S. Imperialism
- The class character of the U.S. Constitution
- The Supreme Court: ruling class's last line of defense
- Supreme Court, education and racism, 1974-present
- A legacy of racism: disenfranchising Black voters
- Why can't I vote?
- Unions and the struggle for democratic rights
- Defending democratic rights
- Propaganda and class rule
- The U.S. war machine and capitalist democracy
IV. Democracy for the working class
- Democracy on the job? Not under capitalism
- Workers' democracy in Cuba
V. En espanol: Trabajadores contra capitalistas: la democracia y la sociedad de clases
