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    pardon my klatchian Member al Roumi's Avatar
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    Default Re: Democracy or What's Right?

    Quote Originally Posted by Idaho View Post
    Would you care to go through your link to find democracies overthrown by leftists and rightists and compare?
    I think that's a bit of a red-herring. Democracy is a system of governance, not a politcal perspective. That said, democracy has been closely associated with political causes in particular contexts -but only because it was considered to serve the political interests of that cause (and in some cases, only at a particular time).

    As has been remarked here, democracy and elections are alone no guarantee of representative government.

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    While reading around this subject, i just came accross this fascinating page:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Marxism

    Don't be put off by the title, it includes a run down of how democracy can contribute to the social good (as well as to the interests of the working class).
    Last edited by al Roumi; 05-26-2010 at 15:41.

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