Thread: О тех, кто в России у власти

What is democracy? If it is people's power, it does not exist anywhere.

Originally Posted by Marcus

What is democracy? If it is people's power, it does not exist anywhere.

On the opposite, some people are always at power (while the others are not), so the people's power exists everywhere.

Democracy is a way of governing a state that postulates the majority-regulated competition as a must to win access to the executive power. Not to be confused with freedom or similar philosophical concepts. Democracy does not automatically imply a market economy, those are rather different things. However, competition serves as foundation in both, so sometimes they are tied together.