DEMOCRACY IS NOT SO DEMOCRATIC

Direct or representative democracy, its popular or liberal variants, is not democratic since it, by its nature, assumes a necessary division between ruler and ruled one.

Rousseau is correct but inadequate by saying that representation kills democracy. Actually, direct democracy itself is not democratic as well as it assumes a division between state and citizen.

Democracy assumes the existence of state, government, citizenship as well as equality before the law of the citizens, who cannot be equal.

Democracy is a Greek-Roman idea and experience that is inherited to modern liberal philosophy as a weapon against aristocracy, clergy and then against absolute monarchy. However, once it wins this battle, it becomes the democracy of the winners.

Democracy is the regime of the winners to regulate their relations with the defeated and ruled ones. Therefore, Lenin is rather correct by saying that democracy is only a form of state. Let me clarify the argument: Democracy is nothing but a political behavior of the rulers towards the ruled ones.

Any ideal, value, ethics that are attributed to democracy, just simply demands a kind and unauthoritarian management of the relations of the state to its citizens: Please kindly behave, follow your law and do not coerce!

Democracy is superseded by "the free association" of people, workers, women and men who also do not need "direct democracy", even which assumes the division of power and impotence.

For democracy, well-organized civil society, autonomous local governments, various mechanisms of political participation, free elections and normal transference of governmental power and legal equality of citizens are sufficient.

However, is this democracy which deserves all so much ideals attributed to it?

Lenin was correct when he pointed out that, following Greek philosophy, democracy is only a form of political regime.

This simply means that it is not the purpose of class struggle of the workers, who already know what democracy is, and can be most.