The dangerous fallacy of ‘democracies’ and the need to reinvigorate real democracy

By Yavor Tarinski

The “democracies” is just the conventional term for that bloc of states. Internally, the democrat is an enemy 

~Jacques Ranciere[1]

Language is a powerful tool. This holds true for politics as much as for any other aspect of social life, if not even more. And there is one specific term that has been used left and right by ruling elites, as well as by grassroots social movements. I am speaking, of course, about ‘democracy’.