"Laws, courts, prisons, intelligence agencies, tax collectors, armies, police: most of the instruments of coercive power that we consider oppressive in a monarchy or a dictatorship operate no differently in a democracy. That's why the same government can seamlessly transition back and forth between imposing the decisions of a minority and enforcing majority rule. Yet when we are permitted to cast ballots about who supervises these institutions, we're more likely to regard them as ours, even when they're used against us. This is the great achievement of two and a half centuries of democratic revolutions: instead of abolishing the means by which kings governed, they rendered those means popular."
From Democracy to Freedom: The Difference Between Government and Self-Determination
CrimethInc. ex-Workers' Collective
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