Democracy (n.) is a form of dictatorship by a class: It is always democracy for one class and against another. Parliamentary democracy is democracy for the capitalist and must be overthrown and replaced by popular democracy.
Democracy (n.) is a form of the state, representing, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons... but, on the other hand, signifying the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
Democracy (n.) is always restricted to the ruling class, while for the ruled it always appears as dictatorship.
Democracy (n.) is based upon a fundamental illusion... namely that, given goodwill and proper institutions, a common interest could be accommodated and negotiated within modern society.
Democracy (n.) is never an end in itself, a form of human and social self-realization. Rather, it can justifiably be sacrificed to 'higher', presumably historic, ends.
A Democracy (n.) recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.
Democracy (n.) is a state which recognizes the subjecting of the minority to the majority.