Democracy Meaning ?
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November 21, 2022What is the Meaning of the word “Democracy”? Do we live in a society under democracy?
Democracy, Democracy, Democracy, I can say the word 1000 times but do I really mean it? or I just say it because makes people feel comfortable. And that is what politicians do these days, they know very well they are not even try to practise Democracy.
Example UK Boris Johnson had no idea what democracy isin fact he didn’t even made the effort to hide it , so obvious he was a liar I am surprised he stay in No 10 for this long. Deocracy can be complex, requires all citizens to be the same status. Democracy and Communism seperated by a thin extreme line complex issues to analyse it in one page.
Let’s go back in time , 1917-1918 those years were rather dark in the History of a man kind, The world was in conflict with each other. Although they were most Christians they start to question Christianity, they chalenge religion to put the blame on and not the economy, war started and really it was a war about money, could be easily avoided, but as greedy as we are we rather have war than sacrifice a 10% of our economy.
Today the same thing is happening again althou this time Democracy is the target not religion. The answer may as well be that Democracy has nort been even tried to be .
We never had or have Democracy, as hipocrites all the politicians as they are they just mention the word because it suits them for the political reasons. democracy is tuff for some.I
if you are a millionaire you don not want Democracy because that means you have to share your wealth and as we know no one is willing to do that.
There are people who think democracy can not be pragmatic if we still have royals and the house of lords. A good example is to look in Scandinavian countries.
Modern labour unions have succeededin enforcing a certain degree of adherence to democratic principles in industrial relations. The corperatives which have attained their highest development in the scandinavian countries are the best example how to approach the industrial democracy.
Popular control of the political affairs of a country however may be attained to a reasonable degree without being accompanied y joint worker-owner control of industries.
That it will be difficult to get the Americans or The British to agree on, they hate the idea of same status order, the rich become richer and the poor poorer and they dare to call this democracy, even a dictator doesn’t think this way.
The principle of popular sovereignty itself, which assumes that the people are the source of authority and possess the potential to exercise good judgment, has been understood to be consistent with multiple forms of government.
Autonomy is the second principle of democracy. One of the principal arguments of this study is the centrality of the idea of autonomy in contrast to the impoverished conceptions of freedom that dominate contemporary scholarly and popular debate.
The etymological roots of “autonomy” stretch back to the Greek words for “self” and “rule” or “law.” “Autonomy” thus means self-rule.
Equality is the third contested principle of democracy. The conflict arises not only from the familiar opposition between the values of equality and individual autonomy but also from the inescapable tensions within the concept of equality itself.
The familiar distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of result again obscures the deeper problem, because equal opportunity is not possible in conditions of extreme inequality.
There is nevertheless an inevitable contradiction between the principle of equality and the democratic commitment to majority rule.
Imagine a simple community with three voters. Two of them decide that the third should become their slave, and they justify their decision by the principle of majority rule.
When the third invokes the principles of autonomy and equality in self-defense—as oppressed minorities have often done, sometimes successfully—that strategy counter-poses principles equally central to democracy to the principle of majority rule.
The discourse of democracy, like the institutional frameworks of different democratic cultures, is complex and multilayered
. It requires the careful weighing of different values rather than the passionate defense of one alone. As its emergence over the centuries shows, democracy is best understood as a way of life, not simply a set of political institutions
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All over the world there is a misunderstanding about the meaning of Democracy and well established no country till today practise the term Democracy. We need to re-establish what is Democracy, and how to put into practise, try to discover it’s practical application and try to come to a better understanding as what is the real meaning of the term.
First is to make clear of the three principal applications of the term democracy We have the social Democracy , which mean an organisation of society which there are no class distinctions and where respect of the individual and his opportunities for success depend only upon his own character and ability.
Most of us seem to believe and like the idea but very feww will practise the idea. Americans are running miles when the hear the word “social”, they have been brain washed and they scared evcen to say the word, mind to practise.
However it is possible to atrtain a fair degree of political democracy without insisting in such completely democratic social conditions. In England politically is a democratic country, yet over there no pretensions are made to social democracy.
In the minds of some we can not have democratic country unless we have change and obtain industrial democracy.
By thisI mean an economy order which the workers and the owners in the industry to have one common voice, how to manage the company, and how the rules and policies are been made. Agree or disagreed the choice has to be equal
An autonomous individual exercises control over his or her own life by developing a self that is sufficiently mature to make decisions according to rules or laws chosen for good reasons.
Autonomous individuals are in control of themselves, which means first that they are sovereign masters of their wills and second that they are not dependent on the wills (or whims) of others. Recent political theorists who have distinguished between “positive” and “negative” freedom,
Between the freedom to do something and the freedom from constraint, depart from the discourse of earlier democratic theorists, who understood that autonomy means self-rule in both the positive and negative senses:
it requires a self both psychologically and ethically, as well as economically and socially, capable of deliberate action; and it requires the absence of control over individuals by other individuals and by the state.
Autonomy has meaning only if individuals are understood as beings who act on the basis of consciously chosen goals developed in the framework of community standards and traditions.
Thus in democratic discourse the idea of autonomy, like that of popular sovereignty, must be balanced against other ideas, in this case the dual awareness that constraints circumscribe individual choices and that the choices of the mature self must be weighed against the demands of the community
The internal tensions between the principle of popular sovereignty and the principles of autonomy and equality make the notion of a smooth-running, conflict-free democracy a contradiction in terms;
History provides no examples of a placid democracy. Inherent in democracy, even when conceived of as an ethical ideal and a way of life, are the inevitable disagreements, and the victories, defeats, and compromises,
that are inseparable from the commitment to allowing people to pursue their own ideals and refusing to specify in advance which of their different, and perhaps even incompatible, conceptions will triumph.
Now go to the Minister who is responsible for your community and ask him. Is he a man who believes and practises democracy? then you teach him what democracy really means.
G.I.T.C
