The popular association of democracy with freedom is undeserved since it owes nothing to necessity and everything to comparisons with more crudely arbitrary and tyrannical forms of political organization (e.g. the PRC). A certain degree of freedom may be a necessary constituent of democracy, but democratic government is not a necessary constituent of freedom.Democratic government, like all government, is logically parasitic upon the market basis of a free society.
Saturday 6 November 2010
Freedom > Democracy : Democracy < Freedom
Part of my comment at David Reid's blog:
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