Timeline for How is North Korea democratic, if there's only one party with one ideology?
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| Nov 17, 2020 at 11:57 | comment | added | Hobbamok | This is the correct answer. Democracy (in its original meaning) exists in a lot of forms different from the western representatives-in-a-parliament standard. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 16:51 | comment | added | Ted Wrigley | @JonofAllTrades: I see your point. Maybe it's better to say that the authoritarian turn comes when these revolutionary leaders stop believing that people will 'naturally' or 'rationally' embrace the ideal, and decide people must be forced to embrace it for their own good. That's the jadedness I was pointing at. There's a lot of that in philosophy: wise people becoming angry and disaffected because other people don't seem to appreciate wisdom. I'll think a bit on revisions that might be clearer. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 14:56 | comment | added | Jon of All Trades | Good answer! I would like to quibble about your last sentence, though. Plenty of revolutionaries have been far from jaded and cynical, believing that with the right people in charge (there's the authoritarianism) Utopia was within reach. Of course, historically things tend to to work out well in the long run. And "the long run" is often just a few years. | |
| Nov 15, 2020 at 14:26 | history | edited | Ted Wrigley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 15, 2020 at 0:25 | history | answered | Ted Wrigley | CC BY-SA 4.0 |