The source of the psychic energy of German postwar society, he explains, consisted "in the secret kept by all of the corpses walled up in the foundations of our state... a secret that bound the Germans together after the war -- and still binds them today -- more closely than any positive goal, such as the realization of democracy, ever could".
Thus, globalization is taken to be a macro-sociological, aggregative fact that constrains the realization of democracy so long as the proper congruence between decision makers and decision takers is lacking.
Similarly, for Hook, there would be no bar to the realization of democracy in either a society that had free markets or in a society in which government owned or controlled the economic means of production.
The consequences of the "fact" of social complexity is thus not the same across all feasible, self-entrenching institutional realizations of democracy, and some ideals of democracy may rightly encourage the preservation of aspects of complexity, such as the ways in which the epistemic division of labour may promote wider and more collaborative problem solving and deliberation on ends.
Hardt and Negri's new book, "Multitude," argues that the antidote to empire is the realization of true democracy, "the rule of everyone by everyone, a democracy without qualifiers".
The limits on any such realization may prove to be not merely ideological: Critical Theory is also interested in those social facts and circumstances that constrain the realization of the ideal democracy and force us to reconsider its normative content.
I believe with strong implementation and government dedication, with the inclusion of girls in policy making, 2030 will be the start of a new era in Ethiopia in the consolidation of democracy and realization of national goals.
I wish the people of Egypt safety and sanity, and the realization of their dream for change and democracy.
In Held's account of cosmopolitan democracy, the universal realization of the liberal ideal of autonomy, derived from Kant, ultimately requires long-term institutional developments such as the creation of a global parliament, an international criminal court, the demilitarization of states, and global distributive justice in the form of a guaranteed annual income for each individual (279 80).
It was my first realization that a presidential campaign in Belarus, a former republic of the Soviet Union, operates with a logic outside any traditional notion of democracy.
He said Russia had chosen the path of democracy, but defined that as "the power of the Russian people with their traditions" and "absolutely not the realization of standards imposed on us from outside".
