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  • (How long can a society hang in a "bonapartist" limbo, with neither capitaist nor proletarian class exercising dictatorship in the modern world?)

    Kasama 2009

  • In this context the CC SACP makes the strange statement that, "The post-1994 democratic state is not inherently capitalist, it is, in fact, a sharply class-contested reality (which is partly why its bonapartist features have emerged)."

    ANC Today 2006

  • In this context the CC SACP makes the strange statement that, "The post-1994 democratic state is not inherently capitalist, it is, in fact, a sharply class - contested reality (which is partly why its bonapartist features have emerged)."

    ANC Today 2006

  • There are many other terms used to describe various constitutions — such as revolu - tionary, bonapartist, legitimist, programmatic, confirm - atory — all suggesting aspects of world history.

    CONSTITUTIONALISM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • Taine's direct views displeased many in France, as the Royalists, the bonapartist and the Socialists felt hurt.

    The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Later he recognised that this was mistaken and gave a much more precise definition of fascism, which annihilated workers 'organisations, and its differences with military bonapartist regimes, which, although reactionary, had not managed to destroy all democratic rights and organisations.

    Socialist Party Main leads 2010

  • However, in liberal parties there is also a kind of "reserve", with bonapartist tendencies.

    In Defence of Marxism 2008

  • "The post-1994 democratic state is not inherently capitalist, it is, in fact, a sharply class-contested reality (which is partly why its bonapartist features have emerged).

    ANC Today 2006

  • What is of interest in the SACP Discussion Document is the reference to VI Lenin on the petty bourgeoisie in the context of the 1917 Socialist Revolution: he sees them, we are told, "as a potential seed-bed and mass base for a bonapartist capitalist restoration.

    MANAGING NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION 2006

  • "The post-1994 democratic state is not inherently capitalist, it is, in fact, a sharply class-contested reality (which is partly why its bonapartist features have emerged).

    ANC Today 2006

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