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zvaigzdelasas · 2 years ago

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Representative democracy *can only* express a particular "People's Will" insofar as said Will isnt contradicted by a counteracting Will *of comparable magnitude* of a different People with *equal (or greater) legitimacy* in the democratic abstraction process.

#starting from this understanding - the 'class character' of a state clearly 'falls out'#'People' here is a rough proxy for class/sub-class interests #tho id argue the real proxy is the 'democratic abstraction process' itself #bc the constitution of 'a People' is itslef sorta the primary actor here #also following from this falls out party structures as the form of representation of a 'People' itself #starting from the point of non-representativrle democracy - unless interests are per-person & completely unshared then a unity falls out #*representative #(non representative meaning basically direct democracy)

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