What the fuck is “Democracy”?

In Defense of Liberation

In this episode, I begin our discussion on democracy, by investigating some of the main stream philosophers’ quotes - from ancient Greek and Roman societies, the enlightenment, and colonial times to today - to get us started. this leads us into a discussion about whether this “Democracy” is a lie, a mythology, or a real-material description of a system where ruling class property owners and capitalists, their children, their families, their business partners, and their class get a real say in the formation of the Capitalist-Imperialist “Democracies”. Similarly to how the standing armies, parliaments, supreme courts and congresses came to exist as a tool, and apparatus of the state to further dominate the oppressed and working class, is “Democracy” simply an ideal we cannot reach, or a real-life system based on the rule of many, over the few (who get to vote sometimes, don’t forget it! 😉)