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What Is Democracy? Part One: Democracy Is Slavery: This is part one in a three part series: democracy is slavery, democracy is impossible and democracy is liberty. Democracy Is Slavery By the phrase "democracy is slavery", I refer to the tyranny that inevitably arises from the principles of...
Posted 16 March 2008 01:57 AM by Brainpolice | 18 comment(s)
Filed under: Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Utilitarianism, Collectivism, Majoritarianism, Democracy, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Slavery

Democracy is Impossible: There are many good arguements against democracy. The most standard of these arguements is primarily an ethical one: that it is unjust for a majority to be able to vote away the rights of a minority. For if democracy is defined in terms of majoritarianism...
Posted 03 December 2007 07:54 PM by Brainpolice | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: Majoritarianism, The Calculation Problem, Democracy, Representation, Voting