Questions tagged [democracy]

Given that the outcome of an election will be the same whether one individual votes or not, what reason does that individual have to vote? Obviously there is an extremely unlikely case where one vote will change the outcome. As a group, the voters…

According to Plato's writings, Socrates went on trial and was executed because he didn't believe in democracy while people practiced it in Athens. What was the core arguments or reasons that he didn't believe in democracy?

Are there any fascist thinkers who oppose militarism? What happens in a fascist state that can't declare war on other states?

I am interested in reading controversial opinions about democracy, especially coming from well-educated philosophers. I am not sure if I ever heard of philosophers being fervently against democracy, most philosophers seem to be actually its biggest…