How would Marxist thought on the state and democracy interpret the political conventions (political practice) of contemporary legislatures within liberal democracies?
I never really agreed to much with pure Marxist theory, but I do believe in Trotskysm, and that is what I am.
Trotsky believed that, in order to establish a true nation ran by a dictatorship of the proletariat, the majority of people must have their say and thoughts govern, not an elite political class as under Stalinism (the worst form of communism)
Communism isn’t against democracy–a "dictatorship of the people" simply means that the majority of people dictate the nation’s decisions and core values, not a small political overclass.