• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Liberal democracy is oligarchic period. Liberal legal frameworks exist to allow the rich to control the playing field.

    • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      If you look back at the first comment I made on this thread, you'll see that this is exactly what I said. Liberal democracy has a historic tendency to turn into oligarchy.

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            That is true, but you might notice that there is some space between these two categories. Germany is a pretty small country, and it's also an oligarchy.

            • Farman [any]
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              1 year ago

              Small comunities is probably limited to pashtun villages with a few dozen freeholders. Anything at the size or larger than the free population of classical athens seems too big.

          • Venus [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Direct democracy and liberal democracy are extremely different things