Are There Alternatives to Representative Democracy?

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The problems of politics—understood as the total organization of a complex society—have become more and more complicated. Consequently, satisfactory solutions have become rarer, explaining why the temptation to take shortcuts sometimes becomes irresistable. Clearly, good solutions are rare for those who do not want to give up any of the fundamental institutions that distinguish a democratic state from those that are not. However much it is reiterated that “democracy” is a term with many meanings (like all other terms in the language of politics), which one can interpret in his own fashion, it does have one predominant meaning—a meaning fully accepted by all those who invoke democracy and who are concerned with realizing socialism through it so that, once realized, socialism governs democratically.

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