Comment by scotty79
19 hours ago
Depends on how you understand democracy.
It's a contradiction only if you understand democracy as a theoretical ideal. Practical democracies, as implemented in western countries, in recent decades proven themselves to be completely controllable by capital, both the democratic elites and democratic masses.
I think we should rather go with practical outcome not the stated theoretical ideas. It's also a good way of evaluating communism and probably other systems.
I see we are going with the definition of democracy where it is one in the headlines and stops being one if you go into the text or interrogate it.