01290pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002100040245004300061260000900104300001500113362001100128520080300139650001200942773003400954909001000988999001700998952010501015180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPatnaik, Prabhat  aDemocracy as a site for class-struggle  c2000  ap.1005-011  a18 Mar  aThe Marxist movement's concern with the form of government has been almost entirely instrumentalist in character: which form of government in bourgeois society best serves the interest of the working class in its struggle for the transcendence of this society. The purpose of the present paper is to argue that, at least in the context of a society like ours, this is too limited a perspective on the question of democracy. Much more is at stake for the working class movement in defending democracy than merely the freedom to organise. The struggle over the form of government, far from being distinct and secondary to the struggle to alter the class-nature of the state, is in fact intimately enmeshed with the latter, so that one cannot talk of the one without talking of the other. - Reproduced  aMarxism  aEconomic and Political Weekly  a44247  c44247d44247  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 35, Issue no: 12pAR44655r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR