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The aim of my essay is to show how Eric Weil, in the early 1950s, conceived the concept of modern democracy as a historical product resulting from the conflictual interaction between Liberalism and Marxism. To this end, I’ll divide my essay into two parts. In the first one, we’ll see how Weil defined the modern paradigm of democracy in general terms. In the second part, however, we’ll try to understand why the Liberal democratic model (formal democracy) needs to take account of the Marxist democratic one (popular democracy). Finally, all of this will be useful for briefly outlining the fundamental characteristics of our current political systems.
Modernity; Democracy; Liberalism; Marxism; Post-democracy.
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