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Biden’s “democracy summit” – how Marx showed the fake character of capitalism’s concept of “human rights”
Marx designated the difference between what he termed “political emancipation” and “human emancipation” – between purely formal equality and rights in politics and the fundamental inequality and lack of rights in the real world. This classically sets out the reality of Western parliamentary democracy.