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Any democracy that was actually founded upon equality or rule of majority. The majority rules doctrine has always been limited by who could vote. If you look at the U.S. there has never been an election where the majority of people participated let alone determined the outcome. While, as time progressed more sectors of society were granted the formal right to vote, and yet disenfranchisement continues and clearly there is a small class of people making all the decisions and excluding others. The rennaissance form of democracy if you want to call it that always carried with it an asterisk next to its universal proclimations. It is one of the interesting aspects of the developement of bourgoeis dictatorship that it has been able to manipulate history and even the meaning of words and ideas over time to fit its needs.

Absolutely, what I was saying flies in the face of the idea that democracy is the opposite of dictatorship. But I would just clarify one thing: it's not that democracy is a form of dictatorship it's that dictatorship and democracy cannot exist without one another. They are dialectically linked. It is like master to slave. You can't have one without the other. The only way to get rid of one is to get rid of the relationship or process which gives them meaning, and thereby get rid of them both.