Democracy and Revolutionary Movement

Political democracy is what some have called government of the people. It can, as happens with bourgeois democracy, favor minority sectors of the population; as a result, some call it formal, since in the name of a people, it favors only a minority. If the minority were to voluntarily submit to the interests of the popular majority in power, the majority could implement a democracy without limits. From a dogmatic Marxism, as a cosmovision or philosophy that included everything and had answers to everything, Marxism has begun to be perceived as an effective tool for analyzing society. A growing number of Latin American Marxist-Leninist, revolutionary leaders talk about a collective or shared vanguard, and some include within that all agents of social change. Very rarely does a single revolutionary organization manage to cover all or even the greater part of the revolutionary political space, subordinating all the others to its leadership.