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# Democracy
Democracy (also *democrazy*) stands for *rule of the people*, it is a form of [government](government.md) that somehow lets all citizens collectively make political decisions, which is usually implemented by voting but possibly also by other means. The opposite of democracy is [autocracy](autocracy.md) (for example [dictatorship](dictatorship.md)), the absolute rule of a single individual; possible yet greater opposite of democracy is final stage [capitalism](capitalism.md), rule of no people at all, with money enslaving everyone. It can also be contrasted with [oligarchy](oligarchy.md), the rule of a few (e.g. [plutocracy](plutocracy.md), the rule of the rich, which we see under advanced [capitalism](capitalism.md)). Democracy may take different forms, e.g. direct (people directly vote on specific questions) or representative (people vote for officials who then make decisions on their behalf).
Democracy (also *demoncracy* or democrazy*) stands for *rule of the people*, it is a form of [government](government.md) that somehow lets all citizens collectively make political decisions, which is usually implemented by voting but possibly also by other means. The opposite of democracy is [autocracy](autocracy.md) (for example [dictatorship](dictatorship.md)), the absolute rule of a single individual; possible yet greater opposite of democracy is final stage [capitalism](capitalism.md), rule of no people at all, with money enslaving everyone. It can also be contrasted with [oligarchy](oligarchy.md), the rule of a few (e.g. [plutocracy](plutocracy.md), the rule of the rich, which we see under advanced [capitalism](capitalism.md)). Democracy may take different forms, e.g. direct (people directly vote on specific questions) or representative (people vote for officials who then make decisions on their behalf).
**Democracy does NOT equal voting**, even though this simplification is too often made. Voting doesn't imply democracy and democracy doesn't require voting, an alternative to voting may be for example a [scientifically](science.md) made decision. Democracy in the wide sense doesn't even require a [state](state.md) or legislation -- true democracy simply means that rules and actions of a society are controlled by all the people and in a way that benefits all the people. Even though we are led to believe we live in democratic society, the truth is that a large scale largely working democracy has never been established and that nowadays most of so called democracy is just an illusion as society clearly works for the benefit of the few richest and most powerful people while greatly abusing everyone else, especially the poorest majority of people. **We do NOT live in true democracy**. A true democracy would be achieved by ideal models of society such as those advocated by (true) [anarchism](anarchism.md) or [LRS](less_retarded_society.md), however some anarchists may be avoiding the use the term democracy as that in many narrower contexts implies an existence of government.