TY - JOUR
T1 - Democratic dictatorship
T2 - Political legitimacy in Marxist perspective
AU - Ypi, Lea
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/6/1
Y1 - 2020/6/1
N2 - This article aims to contextualise, explain, and defend the relevance of Marx's analysis of the dictatorship of the proletariat for contemporary debates on political legitimacy. I call my reconstruction of the Marxist contribution to this debate: the limited legitimacy theory of political authority. Such a theory, I contend, offers a plausible alternative to existing liberal and anarchist accounts and has important implications for a number of key debates in political theory, including the normative significance of the state, the relationship between authority and freedom, the role of democracy, and the meaning and relevance of communist utopia.
AB - This article aims to contextualise, explain, and defend the relevance of Marx's analysis of the dictatorship of the proletariat for contemporary debates on political legitimacy. I call my reconstruction of the Marxist contribution to this debate: the limited legitimacy theory of political authority. Such a theory, I contend, offers a plausible alternative to existing liberal and anarchist accounts and has important implications for a number of key debates in political theory, including the normative significance of the state, the relationship between authority and freedom, the role of democracy, and the meaning and relevance of communist utopia.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85077840492&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/ejop.12500
DO - 10.1111/ejop.12500
M3 - Article
SN - 0966-8373
VL - 28
SP - 277
EP - 291
JO - European Journal of Philosophy
JF - European Journal of Philosophy
IS - 2
ER -