Still another polarization was focused on the real and alleged essence of various terms, such as " freedom ", " democracy ", often counterpointing, e . g ., " bourgeois democracy " vs . " true democracy " or " people's democracy ".
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In it Chen was denounced as : 1 ) Bourgeois democracy opportunist 2 ) Right opportunist 3 ) Right capitulationist 4 ) Factionalist 5 ) anti-Soviet 6 ) anti-Comintern 7 ) Anti-Party 8 ) Counter-revolutionary 9 ) Traitor to China and 10 ) Turncoat.
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He also writes that Kautsky uses " twaddle . . . to befog and confuse the issue ", for example when talking about democracy under capitalism, instead of using the term " bourgeois democracy ", a term which has clear class content, Kautsky instead uses the term " presocialist democracy ."
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This allowed him to explore the relations between what he called the two freedoms of Enlightenment thought : the civic liberties of Locke and Kant ( which became embodied in bourgeois democracy ), and the egalitarian freedoms described in Rousseau s " Social Contract " and the " Discourse on Inequality ".
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In the other countries of the Bloc, Stalin stated that the Eastern European version of democracy was a mere modification of western " bourgeois democracy . " At the same time, Soviet advisers were placed in government institutions, with higher concentrations in the army and the police, while trade agreements gave the USSR a preponderant influence in local economies.
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Lenin writes that it is the " crux " of the pamphlet and that it is an important question because " the relation between bourgeois democracy and proletarian democracy here confronted the revolution in a " practical " form . " Lenin goes on to assert that Kautsky in his pamphlet resorts to lying and falsification of facts in order to try to argue his point.
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Finally, Hitler's deeply-held racial prejudices made him see the US as a decadent bourgeois democracy filled with people of mixed race, a population heavily under the influence of Jews and Negroes, with no history of authoritarian discipline to control and direct them, interested only in luxury and living the " good life " while dancing, drinking and enjoying negrofied music.
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The manifesto denounced " bourgeois democracy " as a " fraud " by means of which " Imperialism promotes the most brutal interests, " advocated for " the unity of industrial action and Socialist politics, " argued that " the revolution of the proletariat annihilates the parliamentary regime and its state " and instead establishes a new form of government based upon workers'councils that combine legislative and executive authority.
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Communist opposition leader Leon Trotsky noted : " The historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery . " Amadeo Bordiga argued that fascism is merely another form of bourgeois rule, on the same level as bourgeois democracy or traditional monarchy, and that it is not particularly reactionary or otherwise exceptional.
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In marked juxtaposition to the previous international communist line, which intentionally muddied the difference between " fascism " and " social fascism " in an effort to break common workers away from their social democratic political and trade union leadership, Dimitrov depicted the establishment of fascism as a definite break in the fundamental form of governance from " one state form of class domination of the bourgeoisie bourgeois democracy by another form open terrorist dictatorship . " Fascism's victory would suppression of the " democratic liberties of the working people, " curtail " the rights of parliament, " and intensify repression of the revolutionary movement, Dimitrov warned.
