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The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative

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Samir Amin

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Universal suffrage is a recent conquest, beginning with workers’ struggles in a few European countries (England, France, Holland, and Belgium) and then progressively extending throughout the world.

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    This text was first published in Monthly Review, vol. 63, No.5 (2011). The copypright for this text belongs to the author.

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Amin, S. (2014). The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative. In: Samir Amin. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01116-5_9

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