Lucien Laurat was a Marxist and author, mostly known in the English-speaking world for his book Marxism and Democracy.

In Marxism and Democracy Laurat provides an examination into the views of Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen...

and her critique of Leninism. He examines the way she describes the changing roles of governing forces away from simply imposing their will to maintain power to a system of enlightening the masses and becoming a function of their collective or a majoritive portion of their collective wills.