(1) Marx: Nineteenth-century thinker Karl Marx believed…

• A.that eventually growing pressures for democracy would overthrow capitalism
• B.that capitalism and democracy would smoothly advance together
• C.that the tensions between capitalism and democracy would be great, but they would by and large develop together
• D.that developing capitalism would eventually suppress democracy and cause a return to oligarchy
• E.that bureaucratic centralism would eventually eliminate both democracy and capitalism
• F.that the capitalist mode of production was the end state of history, and was compatible with either democracy or oligarchy