Democracy (n.) is a socio-political order where the 'people' don't exist they don't exist as a unity, embodied in their unique representative. . The basic feature is that the place of power is its structure, an empty place.
Democracy (n.) is always somewhere in the future. It is always 'to-come'. When democracy pretends to be actual, we enter totalitarianism.
Democracy (n.) is concerned, above all else, with formal legalism. Its formal rules absorb antagonisms fully into the agonistic game.
Democracy (n.) is, for the Greeks, when the members of the demos (those with no firmly determined place in the hierarchical social edifice) presented themselves as the representatives, the stand-ins, for the whole of society, for the true universality'.
Democracy (n.) is not for everyone. Serbs are not American in disguise, just waiting to be delivered from the bad nationalist spell.
Democracy (n.) is not to be fetishized. It is merely one of many forms of struggle, and its choice should be determined by a global strategic assessment of circumstances, not by its ostensibly superior intrinsic value.
Democracy (n.) is today such that every ordinary citizen is, like a king, but a king in a constitutional democracy whereby they are told that it is they who are in charge, but, in the end, their function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration.