"For such movements, nothing could be more unacceptable than seeing ordinary people organising themselves and collectively expressing their wishes."
No direct democracy or sortition for their ilk. The Bolsheviks made sure to annihilate the local "soviets" after comming to power. But the right also has similar fears:
"For such movements, nothing could be more unacceptable than seeing ordinary people organising themselves and collectively expressing their wishes."
No direct democracy or sortition for their ilk. The Bolsheviks made sure to annihilate the local "soviets" after comming to power. But the right also has similar fears:
On the morning of May 29, 1787, in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia, opened the meeting that would become known as the Constitutional Convention by identifying the underlying cause of various problems that the delegates of thirteen states had assembled to solve. “Our chief danger,” Randolph declared, “arises from the democratic parts of our constitutions.” None of the separate states’ constitutions, he said, had established “sufficient checks against the democracy.”
"For such movements, nothing could be more unacceptable than seeing ordinary people organising themselves and collectively expressing their wishes."
No direct democracy or sortition for their ilk. The Bolsheviks made sure to annihilate the local "soviets" after comming to power. But the right also has similar fears:
On the morning of May 29, 1787, in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Edmund Randolph, governor of Virginia, opened the meeting that would become known as the Constitutional Convention by identifying the underlying cause of various problems that the delegates of thirteen states had assembled to solve. “Our chief danger,” Randolph declared, “arises from the democratic parts of our constitutions.” None of the separate states’ constitutions, he said, had established “sufficient checks against the democracy.”
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/our-chief-danger