Marx and Tocqueville

[cerestoly]

Recently I've been reading Tocqueville finally, after a few years of putting it off, and a passage in his introduction caught my attention.

Tocqueville says that “great democratic revolution” is taking place and that it is the “most continuous, the oldest, and the most permanent fact known in history”.

Is it just me or is Tocqueville agreeing with Marx/Engels here?

[The Feral Underclass]

These lectures (Wendy Brown lectures from UoBerkley are awesome). They start off covering Tocqueville in some depth: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/political-science-112c-001/id460482914