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Socialism and Democracy
Summary: Can socialism be effectively combined with democracy to make a good government? The makeup of today's society, particularly the current decline of the working class, makes it difficult to answer the question in the affirmative.
George Lichtheim claimed that "One can have democracy without socialism and vice versa. Whether the two can be effectively combined is the prime question of our age." To what extent do you agree with the above statement"
This statement is asking whether socialism can be effectively combined with democracy to make a good government. For this question to be answered well I will need to outline the basic principles of socialism and democracy and then discuss whether or not they can be effectively combined.
Democracy is the most valued and also the vaguest of political terms in the modern world. The ancient Greek word "democracy" means rule by "the people" or by "the mob." By itself, democracy means not much more than that, in some indeterminate sense, political power is ultimately in the hands of the whole adult population and that no smaller group has the right to...
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