"The people are very good but should not see their face,"
said Jules Renard.
Although trivial, the formula is no less profound.
We want to talk about the “people” endlessly, but from there to entrusting them with the reins of the State, it is another matter… Old, very old story which is at the heart of Philippe’s essay Lafargue, who in
Proud to be demagogues!
returns to the sources of a period that has never ceased to refer.
Do we not say that the Greeks invented democracy?
Hastening to add that it is
“the worst diet except all the others”
(Churchill)?
Why the worst?
Because it is the one who, at any time, can degenerate into chaos, as soon as the "people" fall under the thumb of demagogues who promise them mountains and wonders.
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A debate which originated in the reign of the Athenian Cleisthenes, who, in the 6th century BC, instituted a form of direct democracy based on the practice of drawing lots which allowed…
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