Editing Democracy (section)

====Marxist====
{{Main|Democracy in Marxism}}
[[Marxist theory]] supports a democratic society centering the [[working class]].<ref name="Clark1998">{{cite book |author=Barry Stewart Clark|title=Political economy: a comparative approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3bJHvA1H-2kC&pg=PA57|access-date=7 March 2011|year=1998|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-275-96370-5|pages=57–59}}</ref> Some Marxists and [[Trotskyism|Trotskyists]] believe in [[direct democracy]] or [[workers' council]]s (which are sometimes called [[Soviet (council)|soviets]]). This system can begin with workplace democracy and can manifest itself as [[soviet democracy]] or [[dictatorship of the proletariat]].<ref name="Kazuko 2014">{{cite journal|last=Kazuko|first=Kawamoto|date=2014|title=Rethinking Soviet Democracy|journal=Japanese Political Science Review|volume=2|issue=2|pages=111–133|doi=10.15545/2.111|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Swearer|first=Howard R.|date=1961|title=The Functions of Soviet Local Elections|journal=Midwest Journal of Political Science|volume=5|issue=2|pages=129–149|doi=10.2307/2109266|jstor=2109266|issn=0026-3397|url=http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/POSO/article/view/54803}}</ref> [[Trotskyist]] groups have interpreted socialist democracy to be synonymous with [[multi-party]] [[Far-left politics|far-left]] representation, [[economic democracy|autonomous union organizations]], [[worker's control|worker's control of production]],<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wiles|first1=Peter|title=The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform: Essays in Honor of Alec Nove|date=14 June 2023|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-88190-5|page=31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHAIEQAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+legalization+of+soviet+parties+worker+control+of+production&pg=PA31}}</ref> internal party democracy and the [[worker self-management|mass participation of the working masses]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mandel|first1=Ernest|title=Trotsky as Alternative|date=5 May 2020|publisher=Verso Books|isbn=978-1-78960-701-7|pages=84–86|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVmcEAAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+as+alternative+mandel&pg=PT80}}</ref><ref name="Pathfinder Press">{{cite book|last1=Trotsky|first1=Leon|title=The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution: Including The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International|date=1977|publisher=Pathfinder Press|isbn=978-0-87348-524-1|pages=145–146|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rL8gAQAAIAAJ&q=the+transitional+program+trotsky}}</ref> Some [[communist party|communist parties]] support a [[soviet republic]] with [[democratic centralism]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lenin|first=V. I.|author-link=Vladimir Lenin|orig-date=1905|chapter=Freedom to Criticise and Unity of Action|title=Lenin's Collected Works|publisher=[[Progress Publishers]]|date=1965|location=Moscow|volume=10|pages=442–443|url=http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/may/20c.htm|via=[[Marxists Internet Archive]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124192311/https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/may/20c.htm|archive-date=24 January 2021|access-date=30 November 2011}}</ref> Within [[democracy in Marxism]] there can be hostility to what is commonly called "liberal democracy".