What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist?Astra Taylor, hailed as a &q
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Table of contents :
Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality) --
Shouting as one (conflict/consensus) --
Give me liberty of give me death (taken/given) --
Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice) --
Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneous/structured) --
A Socratic mob (masses/experts) --
A ruin or a habitation (present/future) --
Conclusion : the anti-democratic urge.