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I........ think you just described democracy. How's that working out?
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Nah, in a democracy the authority comes from the hierarchy, it just pretends not to.
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This, basically. Democracy as we understand it is not how democracy was envisaged in classical Athens (hell, Athenian democracy only extended the franchise of voting to propertied male citizens). Representative demoracy is a farce, indeed, to say that the USA or the UK are anything other than oligarchies is laughable. A communist society is antithetical to bourgeois democracy. Marx was pretty definite in his later theoretical works in his belief that pursuing bourgeois democracy is farcical.