section_path: Theory/Marxist communism/Marxist concepts/Democracy in Marxism
section_name: Democracy in Marxism
paragraph_text: Democracy in Marxism
  
  Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat.
  
  While Marxists propose replacing the bourgeois state with a proletarian semi-state through revolution (dictatorship of the proletariat), which would eventually wither away, anarchists warn that the state must be abolished along with capitalism. Nonetheless, the desired end results, a stateless, communal society, are the same.
  
  Karl Marx criticized liberalism as not democratic enough and found the unequal social situation of the workers during the Industrial Revolution undermined the democratic agency of citizens. Marxists differ in their positions towards democracy.
  
  controversy over Marx's legacy today turns largely on its ambiguous relation to democracy