However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.
We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.
When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
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