The capitalist bourgeoisie needs and defends democracy as a form of social freedom only as long as it is useful to its own class rule. Their understanding of democracy & freedom is structurally limited-only he is a full-fledged human being who is also a citizen of property. The real barriers of bourgeois democracty must ber recognized and overcome.
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The 26 community centers in Vancouver, Canada could revive democracy and freedom.