Question

What are the theories and concepts of democracy? Give brief description of liberal, Marxist and socialist theories of democracy.

Answer 1

Democracy literally "rule by people") is a system of government where most or all people have rights to equal constitutional participation (e.g. through assembly and voting rights).

Answer 2

Answer:

• The theory of democracy seeks to distribute decision making power more equitably. The concept of democracy is rule by the people.
• The Marxist theory of democracy appreciates the liberal democratic system for terminating the ear of feudalism and instead introducing the system of parliamentary democracy.
• It is true that liberal democracy is another name for the capitalist system, but it is emergence should be appreciated in the name of a bourgeois-democratic revolution, a big change that terminated the medieval system of feudalism and paved the way for the advent of socialism.
• Such a democracy under socialism is designated as a socialist democracy or people’s democracy having its own distinctive characteristics.