Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 19

2 On democracy
ists, and communists helped to defend the Spanish Republic against a
broad alliance between Franco’s Falangists, fascist Italy, NS Germany,
and the so called liberal democracies of France and Great Britain. It
happened again in 1968 with the reform government in Czechoslo-
vakia (Prague Spring). Its movement was violently subdued by War-
saw Pact tanks.
There are not even slightest indications for the upper classes and
their agents to hand over their power democratically and voluntarily
through majority vote to the common people. Neither broad pan-
European movements nor clever proposals for decent economic poli-
cies (more on this later) will persuade a single political representative
of capitalism in charge to do so in case of basic changes.
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