ДЕМОКРАТИЈА: ИСТИНЕ И ИЛУЗИЈЕ — ИДЕЈЕ И ИНСТИТУЦИЈЕ
DEMOCRACY: TRUTHS AND ILLUSIONS — IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This is an analysis of problems of the concept, institutions and realites of democracy. The author begins with the stanдрoint that truths and illusions are a historical pair and thus incorporated into the very foundations of civilizations. The illusion of the concept of democracy emanates out of the impossibility of existing of people as a political entity. The rule of the people, conceived as the only legitimate one, can not be a rule in terms of policy, since ruling oneself means to be free. The author reveals the non-democratic contents of contemporary democracies — both bourgeois and socialist. Also criticized are the legitimacy of separate will, as a general representative of the people, the weaknesses and limits of democratic rights and freedoms, and the assertions without ground that all citizens realize in an equal way the political sovereignty through elections. Behind the formal-procedural rules relating to parliament and the rule of law; there emerges the undemocratic substance of the rule in contemporary democracy. This is the dialectics of the relations discussed: the ideas give birth to institution, institutions bury the iceas, and this is confirmed also in the case of political parties. The real social and political power in contemporary democracy remains thus to the ruling minority.

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